Welcome to the 33rd Easy JavaScript tutorial, part of EasyProgramming.net. In the last tutorial, you learned how to count the number of characters in an HTML textarea. But now, let's go a little further. Let's make it so that no more than a certain number of characters are aloud in our text area.

Sure, this can be done using HTML5, but JavaScript is so much cooler! Plus, with JS, you can do so many more things with this limit check. The possibilities are endless. 

To fork the fiddle and follow along: https://jsfiddle.net/easyjs/wvnvwpuw/

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