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Word Count Plugin

Show a word count in the TinyMCE status bar.

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This plugin adds word count functionality to TinyMCE, placing a counter on the right edge of the status bar.

Type: String

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "wordcount"
});

Options

These settings affect the execution of the wordcount plugin. The regular expression values that determine how words are cleaned and counted may be set here.

wordcount_cleanregex

This option allows you to specify the regular expression that will be used to strip punctuation and numbers from the word count. Removed in 4.5.0

Type: String

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "wordcount",
  wordcount_cleanregex: /[0-9.(),;:!?%#$?\x27\x22_+=\\\/\-]*/g
});

wordcount_countregex

This option allows you to specify the regular expression that will be used to count the words for the word count. Removed in 4.5.0

Type: String

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "wordcount",
  wordcount_countregex: /[\w\u2019\x27\-\u00C0-\u1FFF]+/g
});

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