superbly tagfield

• © 2013, Manuel Spierenburg, manuel@spierenburg.ch
• Licenced under [GNU General Public License, Version 3.0] [GNU General Public License, Version 3.0]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html

description

this is a delicious like tag field which allows to add and delete tags to an input form field.

• allows new tags or only tags from array
• allow only a certain amount of tags
• can set preset tags
• adding tags by mouse or by keyboard input
• doesn’t allow duplicated entries
• input field acts like a normal input field

demo

http://www.superbly.ch/examples/tagfield

installation

• add resources to your page:

<script type="text/javascript" src=" https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="superbly-tagfield.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="superbly-tagfield.css">

usage

• add an input field
• add tagfield support to the input field

example:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        $("#tagfield1").superblyTagField({
                allowNewTags: false,
                showTagsNumber: 10,
                preset: ['Audi','Bentley'],
                tags: ['Alfa Romeo','Aston Martin','Audi','Bentley','Bugatti']
        });
    });
</script>
...
<input type="text" id="tagfield1" />

options

• allowNewTags: true or false (default true)
• addItemOnBlur: true or false (default false)
• caseSensitive: true or false (default true)
• allowTagsNumber: number of allowed tags (default infinite)
• showTagsNumber: number of shown suggestions tags (default 10)
• preset: array of preset tags
• tags: array of tags
• onRemove: a function that runs before a tag is removed and discontinues with removal if the return value is false

changelog

version 0.1

• removed the car list from the minified version
• moved the project to github

version 0.2

• fixed bug found by noah

version 0.3 (thanks to waf)

• refactor into jquery extension
• make tag input dynamically resize to fix wrapping

version 0.4 (thanks romeroadrian)

• add items by tab

version 0.5

• add allowed tags number attribute

version 0.6

• add case sensitive attribute