This time I will share jQuery Plugin and tutorial about Limit The Amount Of Characters Within Input/Textarea – maxLength, hope it will help you in programming stack.
maxLength is a tiny (~2kb minified) jQuery plugin that limits characters for an input or textarea element using the native maxlength attribute and displays a counter indicating how many characters are remaining.
More Features:
- The character counter is displayed only when you are typing.
- Automatically prevents typing when you reach the max limit.
- Supports paste event.
How to use it:
1. Determine the maximum character limit for your input or textarea element using the maxlength attribute:
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<input maxlength="56" /> |
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<textarea maxlength="140"></textarea> |
2. Download the plugin and insert the JavaScript jquery-maxlength.min.js after loading jQuery library.
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<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script> |
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<script src="/path/to/jquery-maxlength.min.js"></script> |
3. Attach the plugin to the input and/or textarea element and done.
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$("input,textarea").maxlength({ |
4. Customize the appearance of the character counter.
- text: text to display in the counter
- position: “left” or “right”
- color: font color
- fontSize: font size
- template: container element
- showTemplate: whether to show the template
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$("input,textarea").maxlength({ |
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text: "{total}/{maxLength}", |
This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by GururajNadager. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.
