Code used
There is no javascript configuration used in this example. By setting a maxlength property for the textarea, example:
<textarea name="myComment" id="myComment" maxLength="10" cols="50 rows="3">
and by including the dg-textarea-maxlength-autoload.js file,
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/dg-textarea-maxlength-autoload.js"></script>
you will get a default config for all textareas where the maxlength attribute is set
Code used:
var maxLength = new DG.TextareaMaxlength( { el : 'poem', statusEl : 'poem-maxlength-status', maxLength : 255, statusText : '{0} of maximum {1} characters' })