total_words = 0;
if (this.value.length > 0) {
total_words=this.value.split(/[\s\.\?]+/).length;
}

Sorry friends on the way of move to new home I’ve been lost from the blog as I didn’t have internet connection for few last weeks. Now, I’m back and I try to be regular as much as I can. Inspired from the new feature of wordpress 2.6.x which display…

To avoid doing too much counting (ie on every keypress) you could add something to check which key was pressed (in this example space or “.” – the comment about the comma is good too).


this.keypress(function(k) {
if (k.which == 32 || k.which == 46) {
total_words=this.value.split(/[\s\.\?]+/).length;
jQuery('#'+p.counterElement).html(total_words);
}
});