Interesting thought - wouldn't that prepend a new span block every time the
contents changed though?
Matt Grimm-2 wrote:
>
> What about this (untested):
>
>
> $('textarea').change( function()
> {
> $(this).prepend('Current length: <span id="' + this.id +
> '_len">' + this.value.length + '</span> characters');
>
> $('#' + this.id + '_len').css('color', (( this.value.length >
> parseInt( this.id.split()[1] )) ? 'red' : 'green')).html(
> this.value.length )
> });
>
>
> There's probably a chainable way to grab that new span id after the
> prepend fcn, but as I said, untested...
>
> m.
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