text area limt characters

by Prasanth AR

HTML

<script src="http://jquery-limit.googlecode.com/files/jquery.limit-1.2.source.js"></script>
<textarea id="txtId">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and  typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy.</textarea>
<span id="charsLeft"></span> characters left.
<button id="btnId" onclick="myFunction()">submit</button>
<script>
$('#txtId').limit('300','#charsLeft');
function myFunction(){
if($('#txtId').val().length< 300){
alert('not enough words... minimum limit 300');
}   
    else{
    alert('submit successfully');
}
} 
</script>

CSS

textarea { width: 300px; height: 80px; padding: 10px; }