Users are able to enter more than 255 characters in the input box

I have displayed a Text Area(255) field in the VF page.

In IE8/9 , users are able to enter more than 255 characters in the input box.

<apex:inputField value="{!account.Description_for_example__c}" style="width: 360px; height: 200px"/>

Is there a way to restrict them to enter only 255 characters?

Deepa.B.Ankali
@Akil,

you can have a javascript function to alert if user enters more than 255 characters.

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