Drupal Webform Word Limit

We regularly have webforms with text areas. Since Drupal’s webform doesn’t support a limit of any kind for text areas (beyond that imposed by the database), we added one. It’s only front end - but that’s plenty good enough for what we’re doing.

To use, after adding the below to the page JS (either via theme or JS Injector) just add the wordlimit and wordlimit-250 classes to the text area field on your webform, where 250 is the word limit you want to use. If you’d like to specify a minimum word count, just add another class, like wordlimit-100. The order doesn’t matter; this will use the smaller number as the minimum limit and the larger number as the maximum limit.