Count Character in Textarea Using jQuery

Are you looking to build a script like twitter to show your users how many characters they have remaining to write? If your answer is yes, then keep a close eye in this tutorial. In this tutorial, I will explain how to count a character in textarea using jQuery. This is a quick tutorial about jQuery.

It is very useful as we need most of the time to create a textarea which will count the entered character by the user in the real web application development.

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Please make sure you have included the below jQuery file in your web page where you want to implement the character count functionality for your textarea.

 <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js"></script>

1	<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js"></script>

Textarea characters count

Use below code to create textarea characters count in your web applications. Copy paste below jQuery code in your page before head tag closed.

    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function() {
        var text_max = 250;
        $('#textarea_feedback').html(text_max + ' characters remaining');

        $('#textarea').keyup(function() {
          var text_length = $('#textarea').val().length;
          var text_remaining = text_max - text_length;

          $('#textarea_feedback').html(text_remaining + ' characters remaining');
        });
      });
    </script>

$(document).ready(function() {

var text_max = 250;

$('#textarea_feedback').html(text_max + ' characters remaining');

$('#textarea').keyup(function() {

var text_length = $('#textarea').val().length;

var text_remaining = text_max - text_length;

$('#textarea_feedback').html(text_remaining + ' characters remaining');

});

</script>

Use below code in your application where you want to use character counter in textarea.

  <label>Type you text</label>
  <textarea id="textarea" maxlength="250" onkeyup="countChar(this)" class="form-control" rows="3"></textarea>
  <div id="textarea_feedback"></div>

See the live demo of characters count script and then download complete code from below download link.
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Count Character in Textarea Using jQuery

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