Useful and easy plugin. But I think it would be nice if you could add a function, that limits the chars/words in the textarea to the maxCount var, maybe by removing the letters higher than maxVCount in a nice animated manner.
Hope you got the idea, my english is not so ggod.
I tried something out:
after
else var count = options.maxCount – countable.val().length;
I inserted
/* Just a try */
var thecontent = countable.val();
if (count < 0){
countable.val(thecontent.substring(0,options.maxCount));
} else {
countable.val(thecontent);
}
Works for me, but I am by no means a programmer. I am sure there is a much nicer way to do that
Cheers Elvis. That’s a good idea, although I think that behaviour should be optional. When I next work on the plugin I’ll try and add such an option.
Thanks.
Nice plugin, thanks for sharing! It works pretty well.
Just one minor issue, I think.
I was having a “countable.val is undefined” error, so I fixed it doing the folowing (my JS sucks, so feel free to do it the correct way)
if (options.countType === ‘words’ && typeof countable.val() != ‘undefined’){
var count = options.maxCount – countable.val().split(/[\s]+/).length;
if (countable.val() === ”) count += 1;
}
else if (options.countType === ‘characters’ && typeof countable.val() != ‘undefined’) {
var count = options.maxCount – countable.val().length;
}
Just to learn, do you spot any possible issue (crossbrowsing issues?) with that solution?
Thanks again!
@Maniqui – Many thanks for letting me know about the val is undefined error. I presume that’s happening in Internet Explorer? Either way I’ll look into it and get a fix put into the source code. Thanks again.
I really love using your simplyCountable plugin for my textareas, but I ran into a little problem. If I make some paragraphs in a textbox with the enter key, one character less is shown in the box with characters left. At server-side validation this isn’t true, because the paragraphs are reproduced as something like “\r\n” in the string. How could I manage, that this is considered in the box with characters left? Thank you for your help! Andreas
