title: CKEditor Character Count
body: <p>First of all, this question WAS answered here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1651389/ckeditor-character-word-count">CKeditor character/word count</a> but all the answers give broken links... therefore it's not answered.</p>
  
  <p>Using CKEditor, how to I get the character count on keyup, using jquery?</p>
  
  <p>Here's what <strong><em>should</em></strong> work, but does <strong><em>not</em></strong> work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea id="newKnowledge_body"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  &lt;script&gt;
   $(function(){
        // this DOES work, fyi
        $("#newKnowledge_body").ckeditor();
  
        // this DOES NOT work
        $("#newKnowledge_body").keyup(function(){
            var len = $("#newKnowledge_body").val().length;
            alert(len);
        });
   });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I believe the problem lies in the "keyup" event.  I don't get any response when referring to it like that... but I don't know what else to use.</p>