Counting and limiting words in a textarea

Question

I managed to make this little jquery function to count the number of words entered in textarea field.

here is the fiddle

and here is the code:

JQUERY

Answer 1

Adding a simple if condition will solve your problem.

$.each(wordCounts, function(k, v) {
    if(finalCount <= 200) {
        //Todos
    }
    else {
      return false;  //prevent keyup event
    }
 });