Question

my problem is very simple: I want to know how many characters are inside a ‘p’ tag and if the number is over 100 fire an event on hover.
I tried to retrieve the char number like this:

var charLength = $('.myPar').val().length;
<p class="myPar">this is the content of the paragraph</p>

it returns always zero as value and it seems to work only for textarea or input tags.
Any idea?

Thanks in advance!

Mauro

Answer 1

$('.myPar:first').html().length
or
$('.myPar:first').text().length
depending on your use case