Dug,
>As you may have guessed, I'm not a developer, I'm an IA. The
>developers are telling me this isn't possible and I figured if it
>were, the folk on this list would be able to say. So if I understand
>correctly, by the sound of it, this should be possible:-)
>
>You all had concerns about usab
Thanks Ariel, (and thanks Jake and Chris too)
Just because so many people have been asking for solutions straight up...
As you may have guessed, I'm not a developer, I'm an IA. The
developers are telling me this isn't possible and I figured if it
were, the folk on this list would be able to s
It's step 7 that would give you lots of trouble! floating the div around the
last character of the text area, a bunch of math that would depend on the
font size, the wrapping and the width of each letter and the number of
returns, ouch!
Then there's step 8, convincing the users that the floating
This would be easy, here are the steps:
1. identify what event to listen to when trying to respond to key typing in a
textarea // one minute
2. create a jQuery function to select that textarea by id // one line
3. bind on that textarea, to that event type, a function that says 'hi' // one
line
On Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:44 PM Dug Falby <> said:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if I could get your opinion on whether or not something is
> possible and if it is, is there a really compact way of doing it with
> jquery?
>
> I would like to make a character counter for a textarea input. I would
>
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