Limit The Number Of Characters Within Input/Textarea | jQuery-maxlength

More Features:

• The character counter is displayed only if you end up typing.
• Automatically prevents typing while you reach the max limit.
• Supports paste event.

Configurable options

• Text: The text to display on the form.
• Position: The position of text on the form.
• Color: The color of the text displayed on the form.
• Font size: The size of the text displayed on the form.
• Form: a container for text displayed on the form.
• Show Form: Hide / Show form.

How to make use of it:

1. Determine the maximum character limit to your enter or Textarea component utilizing the maxlength attribute:

<h2>Input</h2>
<input maxlength="66">
<h2>Textarea</h2>
<textarea maxlength="150"></textarea>

2. Download the plugin and insert the JavaScript jquery-maxlength.min.js after loading the jQuery library.

<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/path/to/jquery-maxlength.min.js"></script>

3. Attach the plugin to the enter and/or textarea component and accomplished it.

$(function(){
  $("input,textarea").maxlength({
    // options here
  });
});

4. Customize the looks of the character counter.

$("input,textarea").maxlength({
  text: "{total}/{maxLength}",
  position: "left",
  color: "grey",
  fontSize: "12px",
  template: "<div>",
  showTemplate: true
});</div>

Javascript Limit Input Length, Input Type Number Maxlength, jQuery Textarea Maxlength Character Count

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