title: Count number of lines displayed (not newlines) in an HTML textarea without jQuery?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1760629/how-to-get-number-of-rows-in-textarea">How to get number of rows in &lt;textarea &gt;?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have a <code>textarea</code> and I write <code>7 lines</code> in it with only <code>2 new line character</code> like below, just imagine the following code box is a <code>textarea</code> and only twice the enter key is pressed.</p>
  
  <pre><code> A text box, text field or text entry box is a kind of widget used when building
   a graphical user interface (GUI). A text box purpose is to allow the user to
   input text information to be used by the program.
   User-interface guidelines recommend a single-line text box when only one line of
   input is required, and a multi-line text box only if more than one line of input
   may be required.
   Non-editable text boxes can serve the purpose of simply displaying text.
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  <p>After writing some more lines if now the <code>textarea line count</code> is <code>n</code>. How can I calculate the value of <code>n</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Please be clear before you answer the question. I don't want to count how many <code>new line characters</code> are there in my text like this one. <strong><em><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/2035910/1714907">How to get the number of lines in a textarea?</a></em></strong></p>
  
  <p>I want to count the number of lines as like as <strong>Microsoft Word</strong> count it from a passage.</p>
  
  <p><strong>no jQuery please...</strong></p>