I have no idea what this was supposed to be doing

Having the character counter set at a fixed width seems completely ridiculous, and I can only imagine the plug-in author had some reason at some point. Anyway, removing the inline styling works fine for our needs, and the counter no longer breaks the form when it gets too small.

gameon/base/static/base/js/libs/jquery.textareaCounter.plugin.js

@@ -23,14 +23,8 @@
 
 		$("<div class='charleft'>&nbsp;</div>").insertAfter(container);
 
-		//create charleft css
-		var charLeftCss = {
-			'width' : container.width()
-		};
-
 		var charLeftInfo = getNextCharLeftInformation(container);
 		charLeftInfo.addClass(options.originalStyle);
-		charLeftInfo.css(charLeftCss);
 
 		var numInput = 0;
 		var maxCharacters = options.maxCharacterSize;