Textarea with Character count and maxlength limit
by Ben Clayton
HTML
<div id="messagelength"></div>
<textarea name="message" maxlength=10>
</textarea>
JavaScript
$("[name=message]").on('keyup',function (){
var len = $(this).val().length;
$("#messagelength").html("character count "+len)
});
$("#messagelength").html("character count 0")