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CharacterData: length property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The read-only CharacterData.length property returns the number of characters in the contained data, as a positive integer.

Value

A positive integer with the length of the CharacterData.data string.

Example

Note: CharacterData is an abstract interface. The examples below use Text, a concrete interface implementing it.

Length of the string in the <code>Text</code> node: <output></output>
const output = document.querySelector("output");
const textNode = new Text("This text has been set using 'textNode.data'.");

output.value = textNode.length;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
length 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CharacterData/length