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HTML

<textarea name="PresentationAbstract3"  id="PresentationAbstract3"></textarea>
    
    
    <div id="maxwords">Total words (<span>0</span>)</div>

<script>    $(function() {
    
        $("textarea").bind('keyup click blur focus change paste', function() {
            var sum = 0;
            $("textarea").each(function() {
    
                var words = $(this).val().split(' ');
                $.each(words, function(i, v) {
                    if ($.trim(v) !== '') {sum++;}
                });
    
            });
    
            $('#maxwords span').text(sum);
        });
    
    });</script>