Count Characters Used In P:inputtextarea Instead Of Characters Remaining

I posted a similar question earlier but I'm looking for a different approach. I have a inputTextArea and I need to limit the amount of characters that can be entered in to it as we

Solution 1:

Liam,

It's very simple, forget the counter and get the string length:

<p:inputTextarea id="ogdGacOther" rows="1" maxlength="50"
              value="#{rfeBean.rfe.targetOfficerReasonsForReferral.otherOgdGac}"><p:ajax event="keyup" update="displayGacCharCount" global="false"/><p:ajax event="keydown" update="displayGacCharCount" global="false"/><p:ajax event="keypress" update="displayGacCharCount" global="false"/></p:inputTextarea><h:outputText id="displayGacCharCount" 
           value="#{rfeBean.rfe.targetOfficerReasonsForReferral.otherOgdGac.length()}"/>