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HTML
<textarea maxlength="10"></textarea>
JavaScript
$('textarea[maxlength]').on('keydown keyup blur', function(e) {
var $this = $(this),
maxlen = $this.attr('maxlength'),
val = $this.val();
if (val.length > maxlen) {
$this.val(val.substr(0, maxlen));
}
});