Question

I have a textfield where I’m adding a custom attr called maxchars and a value of 255. I can’t seem to read the value, could someone tell me what I might be doing wrong.

jquery

var textarea = jQuery(this);
var maxlength = parseInt(textarea.attr("maxchars"));

html

<t:TextArea maxchars="255"/>

Answer 1

$('[maxchars]')

But it’s not vailid html. Set data in fron of it!
To make it html5 valid, name your attribute data-maxchars and use the selector $('[data-maxchars]')

Sample:
HTML

<p maxchars="255">test</p>

JS:

var text = $('[maxchars]').text();
alert(text);

Fiddle