Textarea character count jQuery plugin

This is a jQuery plugin for character counting for HTML textarea.

Quick start

Choose one of the following options:

1. Download the latest stable release from github
2. Check out the demo page for options.

Features

• character counting for HTML textarea
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
• Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
• compatible with both jQuery 1 & 2
• "Strict mode" to trim off text over the limit

Documentation and Demo

Checkout the demo page for details

LIMITATIONS

• Character count will NOT update when delete from contextmenu. As of current, there is no way to detect contextmenu delete event without using a jQuery contextmenu plugin(contextmenu is the menu brought up by right clicking the mouse on a web page)
• Drop event does not work on desktop safari (cause not yet determined)