Getting the length of a textbox value or content using JavaScript

Question

This is something that\'s driving me nuts:

I have this code and it works: I am trying to learn JavaScript before becoming addicted to JQuery. My sample project invol

Answer 1

May be it is just because of typo in length here:

element.txtName.value.lenght;

must be element.txtName.value.length;.

If you want it to run every time user presses key , then look here: How to check string length with JavaScript