Finding number of lines in an html textarea

/*! Textarea Line Count - v1.4.1 - 2012-12-06
 * https://bitbucket.org/MostThingsWeb/textarea-line-count
 * Copyright (c) 2012 MostThingsWeb (Chris Laplante); Licensed MIT */

(function($) {
  $.countLines = function(ta, options) {
    var defaults = {
      recalculateCharWidth: true,
      charsMode: "random",
      fontAttrs: ["font-family", "font-size", "text-decoration", "font-style", "font-weight"]
    };

    options = $.extend({}, defaults, options);

    var masterCharacters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
    var counter;

    if (!ta.jquery) {
      ta = $(ta);
    }

    var value = ta.val();
    switch (options.charsMode) {
      case "random":
        // Build a random collection of characters
        options.chars = "";
        masterCharacters += ".,?!-+;:'\"";
        for (counter = 1; counter <= 12; counter++) {
          options.chars += masterCharacters[(Math.floor(Math.random() * masterCharacters.length))];
        }
        break;
      case "alpha":
        options.chars = masterCharacters;
        break;
      case "alpha_extended":
        options.chars = masterCharacters + ".,?!-+;:'\"";
        break;
      case "from_ta":
        // Build a random collection of characters from the textarea
        if (value.length < 15) {
          options.chars = masterCharacters;
        } else {
          for (counter = 1; counter <= 15; counter++) {
            options.chars += value[(Math.floor(Math.random() * value.length))];
          }
        }
        break;
      case "custom":
        // Already defined in options.chars
        break;
    }

    // Decode chars
    if (!$.isArray(options.chars)) {
      options.chars = options.chars.split("");
    }

    // Generate a span after the textarea with a random ID
    var id = "";
    for (counter = 1; counter <= 10; counter++) {
      id += (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1);
    }

    ta.after("<span id='s" + id + "'></span>");
    var span = $("#s" + id);

    // Hide the span
    span.hide();

    // Apply the font properties of the textarea to the span class
    $.each(options.fontAttrs, function(i, v) {
      span.css(v, ta.css(v));
    });

    // Get the number of lines
    var lines = value.split("\n");
    var linesLen = lines.length;

    var averageWidth;

    // Check if the textarea has a cached version of the average character width
    if (options.recalculateCharWidth || ta.data("average_char") == null) {
      // Get a pretty good estimation of the width of a character in the textarea. To get a better average, add more characters and symbols to this list
      var chars = options.chars;

      var charLen = chars.length;
      var totalWidth = 0;

      $.each(chars, function(i, v) {
        span.text(v);
        totalWidth += span.width();
      });

      // Store average width on textarea
      ta.data("average_char", Math.ceil(totalWidth / charLen));
    }

    averageWidth = ta.data("average_char");

    // We are done with the span, so kill it
    span.remove();

    // Determine missing width (from padding, margins, borders, etc); this is what we will add to each line width
    var missingWidth = (ta.outerWidth() - ta.width()) * 2;

    // Calculate the number of lines that occupy more than one line
    var lineWidth;

    var wrappingLines = 0;
    var wrappingCount = 0;
    var blankLines = 0;

    $.each(lines, function(i, v) {
      // Calculate width of line
      lineWidth = ((v.length + 1) * averageWidth) + missingWidth;
      // Check if the line is wrapped
      if (lineWidth >= ta.outerWidth()) {
        // Calculate number of times the line wraps
        var wrapCount = Math.floor(lineWidth / ta.outerWidth());
        wrappingCount += wrapCount;
        wrappingLines++;
      }

      if ($.trim(v) === "") {
        blankLines++;
      }
    });

    var ret = {};
    ret["actual"] = linesLen;
    ret["wrapped"] = wrappingLines;
    ret["wraps"] = wrappingCount;
    ret["visual"] = linesLen + wrappingCount;
    ret["blank"] = blankLines;

    return ret;
  };
}(jQuery));



result = jQuery.countLines("#textarea");

jQuery('#display').html(
  '<span>Actual: ' + result.actual + '</span>' +
  '<span>Blank: ' + result.blank + '</span>' +
  '<span>Visual: ' + result.visual + '</span>' +
  '<span>Wrapped: ' + result.wrapped + '</span>' +
  '<span>Wraps: ' + result.wraps + '</span>'
);

#textarea {
  width: 150px;
  height: 80px;
}
#display span {
  display: block;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
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<div id="display"></div>