HTML code
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Download<div class="container">
<div class="col-md-7">
<div class="well">
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="" method="POST">
<textarea class="form-control" id="text" name="text" placeholder="Type in your message" rows="5"></textarea>
<h6 class="pull-right" id="count_message"></h6>
<button class="btn btn-info" type="submit">Post New Message</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>CSS code
This is the css code used to create this bootstrap snippet, You can copy and paste the following css code inside a page with bootstrap 3.1.1 included, to get the result that you can see in the preview selection
Downloadbody{
background:#eee;
}
#text {
resize: none;
margin-botton:10px;
}Javascript/Jquery code
This is the javascript code used to create this bootstrap snippet, You can copy and paste the following javascript code inside a page with bootstrap 3.1.1 included, to get the result that you can see in the preview selection
Downloadvar text_max = 200;
$('#count_message').html(text_max + ' remaining');
$('#text').keyup(function() {
var text_length = $('#text').val().length;
var text_remaining = text_max - text_length;
$('#count_message').html(text_remaining + ' remaining');
}); 
About this bootstrap example/template
This example/template, Textarea with character count, was published on Jun 1st 2014, 19:45 by Bootdey Admin and it is free.
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Bootstrap 3.1.1
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