jQuery character count
<p>I am working on a character count <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5371089/jquery-count-characters-in-textarea">based on this post</a>.<br/>
I would like to call the function on window load but seem to be having issues, otherwise everything works.<br/>
Can anyone lend a hand on getting the count on load please.<br/>
<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/nalagg/PrtXH/" rel="nofollow">heres my fiddle</a></p>

<pre><code>function countChar(val){
    var len = val.value.length;

    if (len &gt;= 500) {
            val.value = val.value.substring(0, 500);
            $('#stat span').text(0);
    }else {
            $('#stat span').text(500 - len);
    }
}

$(function(){
    var inputT = $('#descTextArea').val();
    //countChar(inputT);//this is breaking the code

    $('#descTextArea').keyup(function(){
        countChar(this);
    });

});
</code></pre>
