locking a textarea using jQuery?
<p>How do I "lock" a textarea with jQuery so that no more characters can be entered?  I don't want to necessarily disable it since I want to allow characters to be deleted.</p>

<p><strong>update:</strong> oops..it just came to me:
if I am limiting the length to say 400 characters then i can use the following when the length is > 400:</p>

<pre><code>this.value = this.value.substring(0, 400);
</code></pre>

<p>which will just trim the excess</p>
