String length and jQuery

Question

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

Answer 1

You don't need jquery, just use yourstring.length. See reference here and also here.

Answer 2

It's not jquery you need, it's JS:

alert(str.length);

Answer 3

same way you do it in javascript:

"something".length

Answer 4

You don't need to use jquery.

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

n will be 3.

Answer 5

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 6

The easiet way: $('#selector').val().length