jQuery Plugin To Display Remaining Characters In Text Field - charactersRemaining

Just another jQuery plugin that displays how many characters remaining in a text field and enforces max requirement using maxlength attribute.

How to use it:

1. Put jQuery library and the jQuery charactersRemaining plugin at the bottom of the webpage.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.charactersRemaining.js"></script>

2. Use 'maxlength' attribute to specify the maximum number of characters are allowed typing into your input field and/or textarea.

<textarea maxlength="140"></textarea>
<input maxlength="20"></textarea>

3. Calling the function will generate a character counter underneath the input field and textarea.

jQuery('textarea,input').charactersRemaining();

4. The character counter will be wrapped into an inline span element with the css class of 'charRemaining', so that you can apply your custom CSS styles as follows:

.charRemaining { /*...*/ }

5. Specify the text to display in the character counter.

jQuery('textarea,input').charactersRemaining({
  singleCharacterText: '## character remaining',
  multipleCharacterText: '## characters remaining'
});

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by bryn500. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.