How to get the number of lines in a textarea?
<p>What I would like is to count the number of lines in a textarea, e.g:</p>

<pre><code>line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
</code></pre>

<p>should count up to 4 lines. Basically pressing enter once would transfer you to the next line</p>

<p>The following code isn't working:</p>

<pre><code>var text = $("#myTextArea").val();   
var lines = text.split("\r");
var count = lines.length;
console.log(count);
</code></pre>

<p>It always gives '1' no matter how many lines.</p>
