Maximum Characters limit exceeded warning

Get a warning when the maximum char limit has been exceeded with a simple jQuery plugin

• Only 1 js file
• < 1Kb minified (495 bytes)
• Easy to implement
• Works with inputs, textareas.

Online demo

Visit codepen.

Installation

1. Grab a copy of the plugin

Using bower

bower install max-char-limit-warning --save-dev

Using npm

npm install max-char-limit-warning --save-dev

or download the plugin from GitHub

2. Load the required javascript files

Load them in the html

<!-- jQuery library (served from Google) -->
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<!-- jcSlider Javascript file -->
<script src="jquery.maxcharwarning.min.js"></script>

or use Browserify

require('maxCharWarning');

3. Create the HTML markup

    <input 
           class ="js-max-char-warning" 
           placeholder="Your name" 
           type="text" 
           data-max-length-warning="limit exceeded" 
           data-max-length="10" 
           data-max-length-warning-container="name"
    /> 
    <span class="name"></span><!-- Display warning message here -->

4. Initialize the plugin

Default initialization

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $('.js-max-char-warning').maxCharWarning();
    });
</script>

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License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Joan Claret

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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