Cross-browser textarea maxlength

Cross-browser textarea maxlength



What is a cross-browser way to set the maximum number of characters in a

textarea? maxlength does not work on Opera and IE9 and below.

Once the character limit is reached, the textarea should not allow more

characters to be entered. Text pasted either with Ctrl+V or the

right-click context menu should be cut off at the character limit. This

means a solution that uses only onkey___ events is not sufficient.