//controls number of characters
function CountTextArea(areafield, countfield, maxLen)
{
	if (areafield.value.length > maxLen)
	{
		areafield.value = areafield.value.substring(0, maxLen);
		alertMesg = "You have reach the maximum number of characters allowed by our server. \n Kindly limit your message up to " + maxLen + " characters including spaces.  Thank you.";
		alert(alertMesg);
		countfield.value = 0;
	}
	else
	{
		countfield.value = maxLen - areafield.value.length;
	}
}