maxChar jQuery Plugin: New Release 0.3 « BLOG: Mitch Wilson, Austin TX

maxChar jQuery Plugin: New Release 0.3

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Happy New Year!

I can’t believe I’m saying this … due to popular demand … I have updated maxChar, my configurable jQuery plugin that adds a character counter to Web forms.

Example character counter

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New and Improved

New features added in 0.3.0 are:

Feature change: Displays negative characters when past limit rather than truncating characters in form input.

New option: truncate – If true, on form submit truncates submitted value down specified by limit. Does not change (respects) user text in form field. Default is true.

Bug fixes: Fixed serveral issues related to removing over-the-limit characters in the form field.

Overview, Instructions and Examples

See the main page, maxChar jQuery Plugin.

Download maxChar 0.3.0

Download from the jQuery plugins repo maxChar release page.

Bug Fixes

For information about the bugs fixed, see the maxChar bugs page.

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2 Comments

#1 by Mitch Wilson on January 2nd, 2010

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Thought: several people reported issues with missing scrollbars in the textarea. Although I my plugin is not the cause, I can offer a possible solution.

To get scrollbars, the textarea element needs a rows attribute. So, I could add an option for the plugin to add a rows attribute with a default value of something like 5 to the textarea, if the textarea does not already have a rows attribute. Adding a rows attribute fixes the scrollbar issue.

Thoughts?
#2 by Mauricio on February 18th, 2010

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The truncate doe not work for me

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