Textarea Size Limit w/ Counter
TEXTAREAs do not have a native way of specifying a maxlength like INPUTs so most developers use a little piece of JavaScript to help them out. In the old days it was added inline and looked a little something like this:
<textarea onkeypress="return (this.value.length < 50);"></textarea>
This would limit your textarea to a max of 50 characters (it doesn’t support limiting copy/paste either but thats besides the point right now).
Nowadays, we need a little more than just something that silently limits our input. We need a counter, we need feedback, we need interaction. So naturally I turned to jQuery and wrote what I consider to be a very lightweight yet powerful plugin for limiting the length of any form field via any input method. Optionally, a HTML element or jQuery selector can be provided to update a counter field.
