Rails - Jun 2006 - Anybody got a character counting widget?

Just demo''d my app for marketing and they asked whether, on the big
text
fields, I could give a dynamic character counter so that as they 
approach the guideline maximum they''ll know.  Seems like something that
could be written by looking for key click events in the text field. 
Before I go writing one, though, I thought I''d check and see if anybody
knows of such a thing that already exists in a library I could use.  No 
sense reinventing the wheel.

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On Jun 22, 2006, at 19:58, Duane Morin wrote:
> Just demo''d my app for marketing and they asked whether, on the
big
> text
> fields, I could give a dynamic character counter so that as they
> approach the guideline maximum they''ll know.  Seems like something
> that
> could be written by looking for key click events in the text field.
> Before I go writing one, though, I thought I''d check and see if  
> anybody
> knows of such a thing that already exists in a library I could  
> use.  No
> sense reinventing the wheel.
I guess observe_field is overkill for this, I''d go for some simple  
JavaScript:

   http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript%20character%20counter

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