ezdub1970 on "[Plugin: Contact Form 7] Text are max characters"

I am trying to add the max allowed characters and countdown in a message area but can not figure out how to do it. when tit is coded like this.

<div class="column one">[textarea your-message x5 placeholder "Message"]</div>

I can do it when it is like this without any problems.

<p>Your Message (Max 140 Characters)<br /> [textarea* your-message-2 minlength:10 maxlength:140] [count your-message-2 down] </p>

Any help would be great.

Thanks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/