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Counter is incorrect when you paste text #95
Description
In your demo for textarea, type some text with line breaks in it. Copy it and than kept press Ctrl + V to repeatedly paste the text and you can see the counter is wrong. Fix this issue and it will make it a good plugin :)
Here is how you can do: https://github.com/aaronrussell/jquery-simply-countable/blob/master/jquery.simplyCountable.js#L123
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dvelayos commentedon Apr 29, 2015
i think it's a problem counting line breaks as 2 chars instead of 1
mimo84 commentedon Oct 10, 2015
Why a timeout after a paste should fix this issue?
diego3 commentedon Apr 19, 2016
@mimo84 I think he used a timeout because if you try to get a value from a element just after paste operation it will be empty value instead of a new text pasted. i mean, i dont know why this happen, but after a while it will have the text copy pasted.... it seems a strange behavior for me.
aamirafridi commentedon Apr 21, 2016
As long as I remember, the problem was that if you have maxlength property on textarea than copy paste behaves differently. So just change maxlength to something like data-maxlength would solve the issue.
41GitHub commentedon Jun 26, 2017
When you paste text in that is too long, the remaining variable becomes a negative number. When subtracting a negative the result goes positive. Check if remaining is less than zero and set remaining to zero if it is.
maxLengthIndicator.html(updateMaxLengthHTML(currentInput.val(), maxLengthCurrentInput, (maxLengthCurrentInput - remaining)));