You need to add go() to your for it to work as it needs to populate span#charleft with the character limit. I used a schedule script to do this, but body onload should work fine. [b]HTML[/b]



    
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function go()
{
    // Number of characters
    var LIMIT = 50;
    // Get the elements to fiddle with
    var textarea = document.getElementById('message');
    var span = document.getElementById('charleft');

    // if the textarea has less letters then the
    // limit, update span with the number of characters
    if (textarea.value.length <= LIMIT)
    {
        var newspan = parseInt(LIMIT) - parseInt(textarea.value.length);
        span.innerHTML = newspan;
    }
    // if the textarea has more, trim down to LIMIT
    else
    {
        textarea.value = textarea.value.substring(0, LIMIT);
    }
}