Re: jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry

lkosak — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:27:24 -0000

Hey V, not sure about the list thing--I have never used the list mode, so I didn't bother testing with it (lazy! shame!) Let me know if you find anything out about this.

-Lou

Re: jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry

lkosak — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:45:46 -0000

Hey folks, I just finished a few changes to this (awesome!) plugin that were really useful for me, and might be useful for you. I started with the latest 1.1 from github, but I couldn't commit my changes to github (because it's mad busted). The code is here, for now: http://pastie.org/556896

FYI, these changes are mostly to make this plugin more useful for a 'tag'-style input.

I hope this is of some use to y'all!

Changes:
-when initialized, the token input is set to the width of the form element it's replacing (should probably make this an option)
-if noResultsText is empty, the dropdown is hidden when no results are found
-if searchingText is empty, the 'Searching...' placeholder dropdown doesn't appear
-if no prePopulation data is provided, the text input being replaced by tokeninput is emptied when tokeninput is initialized (previously, tokens would be appended to any default value in the text input, but the user wouldn't see this)
-new option: allowNewValues. On blur,comma,tab,enter, if the user's input has no results, it will be tokenized with id==name (great for tagging, which is what I'm using it for)
-new option: prePopulateFromInput. If set to true, this will cause the value of the pre-existing text input to be split by comma, trimmed, and converted into a set of tokens with id==name. This makes prepopulation easy when name and ID are the same, and in FF, reloading the page preserves the user's tokens (because FF saves form data across reload, and prepop can read them in).

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