mentions-kinder.js 
mentions-kinder is a simple and powerful input ui component that introduces all kinds of tokens/mentions in regular text inputs. Like user mentions you know from Facebook or Google+. It tries to be as configurable and customizable as possible while providing a basic setup you can use right away.
This project is massively inspired by the jquery-mentions-input. We maintained a version internally, collecting various patches and features from forks, but run into too many errors. That's why we decided to write our own version with a few different ideas.
The name is a pun on the german exclamation Menschenskinder, which sounds exactly like mentions-kinder. It can also be interpreted in the way, that this plugin provides all kinds of mentions.
Check the demo page now!
Features
- Multiple trigger chars (i.e. # => tags, @ => mentions, ! => priority)
- Configurable output serialization (i.e. [@Jon Doe](user:id))
- Configurable autocompleters (select2, datepicker, whatever)
- Support IE8
TODO
- Context sensitive trigger, i.e. don't trigger @-mention when entering email address, via regex (
/(^|\s)@/), which would support multi-char triggers too - Remove mention via BACKSPACE in Firefox and IE8 (See this Stackoverflow post)
- Full documentation
- Better Tests
- Try to remove rangy dependency, extract what we really need
- Make jquery optional
- Build with require.js
- Implement datepicker-autocompleter
- Implement autocompleter using Twitter Typeahead
Usage
It's best to check our demo page and its source for now, sorry.
$('textarea').mentionsKinder()
