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

Relying on keypress, keydown, keyup is a flawed solution because a user can copy and paste data into the textarea without pressing any keys.

To limit the length of text in a textarea with javascript regardless of how the data gets in there you must rely on a setInterval timer instead.

setInterval(function() {
if ($('#message').val().length > 250) {
    $('#message').val($('#message').val().substring(0, 250));
}}, 500);

Obviously, I'm assuming you have an id of message assigned to your textarea.