Get text from div

JavaScript
1

I want to get the count of characters of a div.
Now I use

m= $('content_text').innerHTML;

but is a way to clean html code and get only the number of characters of the pure text of that div?
I use mootools.

2

Try with Len function?
Javascript Len() string Length [ Visual Basic Knowledgebase ]

Or the length function?:
JavaScript - Strings

3

Yes,but also the text has html code so I want to clean it…
Practically I want the height of the text at this div.
If no other way,I will use length()…

4

So I tried that.Any suggestions are welcome.

function checkheght(mtext) {
        //alert(mtext);
        var div = document.createElement("div");
 div.innerHTML=mtext;
        // Test
        div.style.visibility = 'hidden';
      //  div.style.paddingLeft = '1px';
        document.body.appendChild(div);
        isSupported = div.clientHeight + 1;
 alert(isSupported)
        // Cleanup
        document.body.removeChild(div).style.display = 'none';
        div = null;
 
        return isSupported;
    }
5

Never used mootools before… hope this works.

I am doing a basic test against 2 divs, 1 with a P tag and getting the length of each


<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.3.1/mootools-yui-compressed.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="test">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</div>
		<div id="test2"><p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p></div>

		<script>
			(function() {
				var test = document.id('test').get('text'),
					test2 = document.id('test2').get('text');
				alert('Test Div is ' + test.stripScripts().length + ', and Test2 Div is ' + test2.stripScripts().length);			
			}());
		</script>
	</body>
</html>
6

Thank you.This code is helpful.
But my I forgot to consider that I wanted to find the height of the text at that div,so I believe that the code I gave is closer to that I want because it check how it is formatting.