CharacterData.length

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>
let output = document.getElementsByTagName("output")[0];
let textnode = new Text("This text has been set using textnode.data.");

output.value = textnode.length;

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# dom-characterdata-length

Browser compatibility

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