Max characters in textarea with jquery

Question

I have the following code, and I\'m kind of stuck on what to do next. The idea is when you enter text into a text area a counter tells you how many characters you have left.

Answer 1

ehm, textarea maxlength is a valid attribute in html5 ? not supported in ie9, thats all.

w3nerds http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/textarea.html#textarea.attrs.maxlength

w3fools http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_textarea_maxlength.asp