TinyMCE Get Word Counts Using jQuery

Sample code snippet (Full TinyMCE Example)

var log = $(".log"), previous_content = "";
var plugins = [
    "advlist autolink autosave link image lists charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak spellchecker",
    "searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars code fullscreen insertdatetime media nonbreaking",
    "table contextmenu directionality emoticons template textcolor paste fullpage textcolor colorpicker textpattern"
];
tinymce.init({
    selector: ".rich_editor",
    setup: function (editor) {
        editor.on('change redo undo', function () {
            editor.save();
            var body = tinymce.activeEditor.getBody();
            var content = tinymce.trim(body.innerText || body.textContent);
            if(content != previous_content) {
                content = $.trim(content.replace( /[^\w ]/g, " "));
                var word_count = content == "" ? 0 : content.split( /\s+/ ).length;
                log.prepend("Word_Count=" + word_count + "<br/>");
                log.prepend("Editor_Text=" + content + "<br/>");
                previous_content = content;
            }
        });
    }
});

Sample output

Simple TineMCE Editor Example With jQuery

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Sample code snippet

var plugins = [
    "advlist autolink autosave link image lists charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak spellchecker aa_custom_text aa_inline_image",
    "searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars code fullscreen insertdatetime media nonbreaking",
    "table contextmenu directionality emoticons template textcolor paste fullpage textcolor colorpicker textpattern"
];
tinymce.init({
    selector: "textarea.rich_editor",
    height: 400,
    plugins: plugins,
    contextmenu: "link image inserttable | cell row column deletetable",

    toolbar1: "newdocument | aa_custom_text aa_inline_image | bold italic underline strikethrough | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | styleselect formatselect fontselect fontsizeselect",
    toolbar2: "cut copy paste | searchreplace | bullist numlist | outdent indent blockquote | undo redo | link unlink anchor image media code | insertdatetime preview | forecolor backcolor",
    toolbar3: "table | hr removeformat code | subscript superscript | charmap emoticons | print fullscreen | ltr rtl | spellchecker | visualchars visualblocks nonbreaking template pagebreak restoredraft",

    menubar: false,
    statusbar: false,
    toolbar_items_size: 'small'
});

Sample output