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Simply Countable

Submitted by aaronrussell on July 9, 2009 - 6:44pm

jQuery Simply Countable plugin

jQuery plugin that provides a character counter for any text input or textarea.

Usage

Simple usage:

$('#my_textarea').simplyCountable();

Advanced usage:

Twitter Style Counter

Submitted by karbassi on October 27, 2008 - 10:45am

Displays the remaining number of text with visual markers for the user. This does not truncate the text so the user can go negative but the counter will display the visual marker to show the user that they cannot be negative.

This does not do any validation, so I suggest you validate the text size remaining (number of characters the user has left to type) is greater or equal to zero.