HTML
<textarea id="detailed"></textarea>Detailed decription<br /><span id="detailedleft"></span>
JQuery
$('textarea#detailed').keyup(function() {
var len = (this.value.split(' ').length) -1;
if (len >= 250) {
this.value = this.value.substring(0, 250);
}
$('#detailedleft').text(250 – len + ' words left');
});
Interesting… I will have to investigate and amend the scrept