jQuery plugin to limit the amount of characters for a textarea
Apply the plugin to your textarea form element and the user will only be able to add characters up to the limit specified. A counter will be inserted before the textarea
$('.text-counter').textcounter();
Twitter customized counter, with user defined class, container, prefix and suffix
$('.text-counter').textcounter({
limit: 140,
class: "textarea-limit-custom",
container: $('#limitBox'),
prefix: "(",
suffix: ")"
});