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HTML
<textarea maxLength="10">
</textarea>
<div>
</div>
JavaScript
$textarea = $("textarea");
$div = $("div");
$textarea.keyup(function () {
$div.text("Remaining characters: " + (parseInt($textarea.attr("maxlength"), 10) - $textarea.val().length));
})