jQuery “characters remaining” script

Posted by jj_jiles on Mar 30, 2010 in jQuery & Javascript | 4 comments

This is a jQuery script for displaying “characters remaining” for input fields. It will look for any input element with the class “input” (or whatever you specify) and use the element’s maxlength attribute as the value to count against and update the “fieldName-counter” element. This is a very useful script for those occasions when you want to limit the character entry for an input field. <!-- input and character count element --> <span...