Small modification to the limit of a textarea characters counter
<p>The code below counts the chars typed in a textarea. If you reach the 250 limit you can not add more. How can I let people to type more than 250? </p>

<p>Like ok, you have 250 minimum but it doesn't mind if you put more than this. Thanks!</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;
var maxLength=250;
function charLimit(el) {
    if (el.value.length &gt; maxLength) return false;
    return true;
}
function characterCount(el) {
    var charCount = document.getElementById('charCount');
    if (el.value.length &gt; maxLength) el.value = el.value.substring(0,maxLength);
    if (charCount) charCount.innerHTML = maxLength - el.value.length;
    return true;
}
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;form&gt;
    &lt;textarea onKeyPress="return charLimit(this)" onKeyUp="return characterCount(this)"  rows="8" cols="40"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span id="charCount"&gt;250&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; more characters available.&lt;/p&gt;
</code></pre>
