jQuery Tagit Plugin

Active Development?

This plugin is no longer under active development, I will continue to merge in pull requests as long as they conform to the Note for contributers/pull requesters below, but do not have the time to activly develop the plugin. If someone wishes to take over the plugin create an issue in the tracker and I will discuss with you there. For anyone looking to use this plugin I strongly suggest checkout out the awesome Select2 by Igor Vaynberg. Which has all the features of Tagit and then some!

Note for contributors/pull requesters

We welcome all bug fixes and additions to tagit, it is a community project after all, however we have one rule for commits:

• All edits must be applied to both tagit.js and tagit-themeroller.js no pull requests will be accepted unless this is done to ensure the scripts function equally.

Why unique? Because jQuery Tagit uses jQuery UI's auto-complete plugin to supply suggestions to users as they type and has some awesome features like sortable tags.

Quicklinks

• Demo
• Features
• Options
• Methods

Features

• Convenient way for users to enter a list of items
• Fully integrated with jQuery ui auto complete
• Automatically adds current input as tag if input loses focus
• Easy to use public methods
• Easy to theme (single css file)
• Customizable trigger keys
• Backspace on empty input deletes previous tag
• Ability to provide initial tags on creation though options
• Ability to provide initial tags on creation via list items
• Option to toggle usage of a hidden select so the tags can be sent using a normal form!
• Ability to re-arrange tags by drag and drop!
• Optional ThemeRoller compatibility!
• Fully HTML5 Data-attributes compliant!

Options

<tr>   <td>triggerKeys</td>   <td>Array</td>   <td>['enter', 'space', 'comma', 'tab']</td>   <td>An array containing all or any of the default options.<br/>       These are the keys that will trigger a tag completion   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>allowNewTags</td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>true</td>   <td>Allow tags that do not exist in tagSource to be entered?</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>initialTags</td>   <td>Array</td>   <td>[]</td>   <td>An array containing tags to pre-populate the field with</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>minLength</td>   <td>Int</td>   <td>1</td>   <td>The minimum length before a triggerKey will create a tag</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>maxLength</td>   <td>Int</td>   <td>1</td>   <td>The maximum length a tag is allowed to be</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>select</td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>false</td>   <td>Maintain a hidden select in place for form submissions<br/>       To name the select simply give your UL a name attribute!       ***       Don't forget       to include &#91; and &#93; if your language (e.g. PHP) requires them!   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>tagsChanged</td>   <td>Callback</td>   <td>function(tagValue, action, element)</td>   <td>Callback on changed tags:       **tagValue:** string       **action:** string - either 'added', 'popped', 'moved' or 'reset'       **element:** object - reference to the added LI element   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>caseSensitive</td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>false</td>   <td>The check for existing tags is case sensitive.       If false the words "Foo" and "foo" considered the same   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>highlightOnExistColor</td>   <td>String</td>   <td>#0F0</td>   <td>If the user tries to add a tag that already exists the existing       tag will run a highlight effect using the defined background color.       If null, the highlight effect is turned off.   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>placeholder</td>   <td>String</td>   <td>Enter tags...</td>   <td>The placeholder of the tagit field. It can be any string.   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>inputWidth</td>   <td>integer</td>   <td>150</td>   <td>The length of the input. It can be adjusted based on the palceholder.   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>maxTags</td>   <td>Int</td>   <td>unlimited</td>   <td>The maximum number of tags that the user can enter.       If omitted, an unlimited number of tags are allowed.   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>sortable</td>   <td>Bool, String</td>   <td>false</td>   <td>Allows the user to re-order the tags using drag and drop.       If true the whole tag is dragable.       If 'handle' a handle is rendered and the tag is only dragable using the handle.   </td> </tr>  <tr>   <td>allowDuplicates</td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>False</td>   <td>Allow Duplicate tags if set to true   </td> </tr> 

Methods

<tr>   <td><code>.tagit("tags")<code></td>   <td>Array</td>   <td>Returns an array of objects about all the tags.</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td><code>.tagit("reset")</code></td>   <td>null</td>   <td>Resets the tags list to the initial value</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td><code>.tagit("fill", [{label: 'tag', value: 12}, {label: 'stuff', value: 13}])</code></td>   <td>null</td>   <td>Empties the tags and fills the plugin with the provided tags.</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td><code>.tagit("add", {label: 'tag', value: 12})</code></td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>Adds a tag to the plugin.</td> </tr>  <tr>   <td><code>.tagit("remove", 'tag', 12)</code></td>   <td>Bool</td>   <td>Removes a tag by its label or value.</td> </tr> 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License with original attribution remaining with Matthew Hailwood and http://jquery.webspirited.com.