DEPRECATED - no longer actively maintained

Tagator

Tagator is a jQuery-based replacement for input boxes, making them tagging boxes. It supports searching, and affects the original input box directly, which is used as a comma serparated data container. You can see a demo here.

Usage

include in head:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="fm.tagator.jquery.css"/>
<script src="jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="fm.tagator.jquery.js"></script>

to activate replacement:

$('#inputBox').tagator();

If you don't wan't to meddle with scripting, there is an alternative to activate replacement, by using inline markup.

<input type="text" class="tagator" data-tagator-use-dimmer="true" data-tagator-autocomplete="['first', 'second', 'third']">

if you want to change settings:

$('#inputBox').tagator({
    prefix: 'tagator_',           // CSS class prefix
    height: 'auto',               // auto or element
    useDimmer: false,             // dims the screen when result list is visible
    showAllOptionsOnFocus: false, // shows all options even if input box is empty
    allowAutocompleteOnly: false, // only allow the autocomplete options
    autocomplete: []              // this is an array of autocomplete options
});

CSS classes

Here is a list of all the css classes

Class	Description
prefix_element	This is the new input box. It has some extra classes called options-visible and options-hidden which tell if the options list is visible or not
prefix_tags	The holder for the tags
prefix_tag	The tags
prefix_tag_remove	The remove button for the tag
prefix_placeholder	The placeholder element
prefix_input	This is the input box for the tagator
prefix_textlength	This is used to calculate the size of the input box
prefix_options	The autocomplete options list holder. This is used together with options-visible or options-hidden to show or hide the autocomplete options
prefix_option	This is a autocomplete option. It has an extra class called active which tells if the option is the active one
prefix_dimmer	This is the dimmer

DOM Structure

• dimmer
• element: containing the options-visible|options-hidden class
  • textlength
  • tags
    • tag
      • tag_remove
    • tag...
  • placeholder
  • input
  • options
    • option: containing the active class
    • option...

jQuery methods

Method	Description
refresh	This method is used to manually refresh the plugin. A scenario where this would be useful is if the data in the original input box is changed by some other script.
autocomplete	This method is used to change/update the autocomplete list
destroy	This method is used to remove the instance of the plugin from the input box and restore it to its original state.

Method usage

$('#inputBox').tagator('refresh');

$('#inputBox').tagator('autocomplete', ['tag1','tag2','tag3']);

$('#inputBox').tagator('destroy');

Browser compatibility

• IE 8+
• Chrome 2+
• Firefox 3+
• Safari 4+
• Opera 10.5+

Copyright and license

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Qodio

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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