To make a word count web tool, we can use the JavaScript language. Here's a simple way to do this:
First, we need to add a text box in the HTML where the user can enter text. Then, we need to add a button to the web page, and when the user clicks the button, the word count tool calculates the number of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs of the text entered in the text box.
.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Word count tool</title>
</head>
<body>
<label for="text"> Please enter text:</label>
<textarea id="text" rows="4" cols="50"></textarea>
<button onclick="countWords()"> counts the number of words</button>
<p id="wordCount">Word count: 0</p>
<p id="charCount"> number of characters: 0</p>
<p id="lineCount"> number of rows: 0</p>
<p id="paraCount"> Number of paragraphs: 0</p>
<script src="wordCount.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
In this HTML code, we create a text box and a button, as well as four paragraphs to display the number of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs.
Next, we need to write the countWords function in JavaScript. This function gets the text in the text box and then counts the number of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs of the text.
javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
function countWords() {
var text = document.getElementById('text').value;
var wordCount = text.split(' ').length;
var charCount = text.length;
var lineCount = text.split('n').length;
var paraCount = text.split(/s+/).length - 1;
document.getElementById('wordCount').innerHTML = 'Word Count: ' + wordCount;
document.getElementById('charCount').innerHTML = 'Number of characters: ' + charCount;
document.getElementById('lineCount').innerHTML = 'Number of rows: ' + lineCount;
document.getElementById('paraCount').innerHTML = 'Number of paragraphs: ' + paraCount;
}
</script>
In this JavaScript code, we first get the text in the text box and then use the split function to split the text into an array of words. We can also use the split function to split the text into an array of characters and an array of lines, and then calculate the number of characters and lines. We can also use regular expressions to split the text into an array of paragraphs and then count out the number of paragraphs.
Finally, we display the number of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs on the web page.
Now, you can open the HTML file in your browser, type text in the text box, and click the button to see the word count.
This is just a simple word count tool that you can modify and expand as needed. For example, you can add more features such as counting paragraph length, punctuation marks, etc.
Of course, we can also use the more complete word count tool of this site to quickly count the number of text characters, symbols, numbers, etc. in the article.