Limit Number of Characters in a TextArea using jQuery

The MaxLength property works for a textbox but not for a TextArea. I recently bumped into a JavaScript solution which demoed how to Limit the Number of Characters in a Textarea or Text Field. I thought of replicating the functionality in jQuery and here’s what I came up with

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(Maximum characters: 150)

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