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")