maxlength_countdown() - a useful jQuery plugin for showing characters left
1st of May 2011
If people find this useful I might turn it into a proper jQuery plugin and publish it.
Without further ado; here's the demo
What it does is that for all input fields that have a maxlength="nnn" it shows a counter to the right that increases in opacity as it reaches the maximum. You can generally start it like this:
$('input[maxlength]').maxlength_countdown();
Since the plugin "hard codes" the count down expression in English you can override it easily like this:
$('input[name="message"]').maxlength_countdown(function (count, max) {
return count + " (max: " + max + ")";
});
return count + " (max: " + max + ")";
});
What do you think? Is it useful? Does it make sense?
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