How do you get the length of a string?

Question

How do you get the length of a string in jQuery?

Answer 1

jQuery is a JavaScript library.

You don't need to use jQuery to get the length of a string because it is a basic JavaScript string object property.

somestring.length;

Answer 2

You don't need to use jquery.

var myString = 'abc';
var n = myString.length;

n will be 3.

Answer 3

HTML

<div class="selector">Text mates</div>

SCRIPT

alert(jQuery('.selector').text().length);

RESULT

10