I’ve been thinking more about the textarea counter issue that I mentioned in my previous post (“Users Paste Differently“).
First of all, I noticed that some of the textarea counter scripts date back to at least 2000, so this has been a problem that developers have been looking to solve for 8 years. I checked the HTML 5 specification and found that in HTML 5, the textarea element has a maxlength attribute. Presumably user agents will build in the most elegant solution.
But what is the current most elegant solution? Continue reading Javascript textarea counter