Just include text-control.js after jQuery. Requires jQuery 1.4+.

It is also available via bower.

$ bower install --save text-control

<script src='jquery.js'></script>
<script src='text-control.js'></script>

$('.foo').texControl();

To make the script run when the page load, you need to put the function inside a load, ready function or in the end of the body, like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
	$('.foo').textControl();
})

$('.foo').textControl({
	limit: 26
});

You can set the character limit! Easy and done.

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