jquery select custom attr
<p>I have a textfield where I'm adding a custom attr called maxchars and a value of 255. I can't seem to read the value, could someone tell me what I might be doing wrong. </p>

<p>jquery</p>

<pre><code>var textarea = jQuery(this);
var maxlength = parseInt(textarea.attr("maxchars"));
</code></pre>

<p>html</p>

<pre><code>&lt;t:TextArea maxchars="255"/&gt;
</code></pre>
