jQuery Plugin For Character Counter In Text Fields

A very simple lightweight jQuery plugin that creates a counter inside your text fields to display how many characters are left until the maximum allowed characters are reached.

How to use it:

1. Include the jquery.charactercounter.js after loading jQuery library.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.charactercounter.js"></script>

2. Call the plugin on the text fields and pass in the plugin parameter which specifies the number of characters allowed to type into the input filed and textfield.

$('input').characterCounter(140);
$('textfield').characterCounter(250);

Change log:

2015-04-27

• Fixed last character length bug 0-1

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by kokulusilgi. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.