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React Input Group - Textarea with Counter
A React textarea with live character counter and post button showing limit enforcement built with shadcn/ui InputGroup components
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Users hate discovering character limits after writing 600 characters for a 500-character field. This React textarea adds 0/500 character counter using InputGroupText with maxLength enforcement and Post button with SendIcon. Built with shadcn/ui InputGroup with block-end alignment and min-h-100px, it's perfect for social media posts, comment forms, bio fields, tweet composers, or any character-limited textarea where users need ongoing awareness of remaining space to avoid truncation frustration.
Pattern created by @haydenbleasel
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