Facebook type auto-complete tagging system

Vertical list style item selection

Facebook style item selection


This is a jQuery plugin to allow users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook.


Features:

• Intuitive UI for selecting multiple items from a large list
• Layout controlled fully in CSS, easily customizable
• Result caching reduces server load
• No images required, just the plugin’s .js file and some CSS
• Handles json search data for auto-completion
• Smooth animations when results load
• Select items using the mouse or keyboard

Usage:

• Make sure you have jquery script included on your page
• Include jquery.tokeninput.js on your page
• Include one of the provided stylesheets, or make your own
• Create a server-side script (php/rails/django anything goes) to generate the search results.
  The script itself can fetch data from wherever you like, for example a database or a hardcoded list, but it must do the following:
• Take exactly one GET parameter named “q” which will contain the query string. E.g. http://www.example.com/myscript?q=query
• Output JSON search results in the following format:
  

  [{"id":"856","name":"House"},
   {"id":"1035","name":"Desperate Housewives"},
   {"id":"1048","name":"Dollhouse"},
   {"id":"1113","name":"Full House"}
  ]

• Turn text inputs into tokeninputs using jQuery and point them to your results script:
  

  <script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $("#my-text-input").tokenInput("/url/to/your/script/");
  });
  </script>

• A list of selected item ids is created inside the original text entry, process them as usual when the form is submitted.

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