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jQuery-tagEditor

A powerful and lightweight tag editor plugin for jQuery.

Compatible with jQuery 1.7.0+ in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer 8+. IE7 technically works, but no care has gone into CSS/layout bugs. Released under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

This plugin was developed by and for Pixabay.com - an international repository for sharing free public domain images. We have implemented this plugin in production and we share this piece of software - in the spirit of Pixabay - freely with others.

Demo and Documentation

https://goodies.pixabay.com/jquery/tag-editor/demo.html

Features

  • Lightweight: 8.5 kB of JavaScript - less than 3.2 kB gzipped
  • Edit in place tags
  • Intuitive navigation between tags with cursor keys, Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Pos1, End, Backspace, Del, and ESC
  • Optional jQuery UI sortable
  • Optional jQuery UI autocomplete
  • Copy-paste or delete multiple selected tags
  • Duplicate tags check
  • Custom delimiter/s
  • Placeholder
  • Custom style for faulty tags
  • Public methods for reading, adding and removing tags + destroy function
  • Callbacks
  • Allows tabindex for form navigation
  • Graceful degradation if JavaScript is disabled

Changelog

Version 1.0.21 - 2017/05/05

  • Fixed bug: Delete multiple tags via selection not working with certain parent cotainer structure.

Version 1.0.20 - 2016/01/30

  • Fixed #62: tagEditor is blocking key events on other input and textarea elements on page.

Version 1.0.19 - 2015/12/02

  • Fixed #60: Tag editor fails to handle HTML operator chars.

Version 1.0.18 - 2015/08/12

  • Pull #43: Escape HTML special characters on input.

Version 1.0.17 - 2015/07/14

  • Allow beforeTagSave() to return false for discarding certain tag values.

Version 1.0.16 - 2015/07/01

  • Fix #5, #35, #37, #38: "TypeError: owner is null" backspace browser history issue.

Version 1.0.15 - 2015/05/24

  • Fix #31, #33, #34: Added maxTags, removeDuplicates, and animateDelete options.

Version 1.0.14 - 2015/04/05

  • Fix #24: Auto-close tag after selecting autocomplete suggestion by mouse click.

Version 1.0.13 - 2015/01/26

  • Fix #9: Added bower support.

Version 1.0.12 - 2015/01/16

  • Fix #17: Make use of tabindex for form navigation.

Version 1.0.11 - 2015/01/08

  • Use beforeTagSave return value for overwriting new tags.

Version 1.0.10 - 2015/01/04

  • Fix for IE8

Version 1.0.9 - 2014/12/17

  • Optimized internal input autogrow function.

Version 1.0.8 - 2014/12/14

  • Added bower.json file.

Version 1.0.7 - 2014/11/26

Version 1.0.6 - 2014/10/22

  • Fixed: Detection for selected field (.tag-editor) on backspace/delete keypress failed in some cases.

Version 1.0.5 - 2014/09/30

Version 1.0.4 - 2014/09/24

Version 1.0.3 - 2014/09/13

  • Removed unnecessary vendor prefixes in CSS stylesheet.

Version 1.0.2 - 2014/07/16

  • Fixed removal of placeholder after calling addTags.

Version 1.0.1 - 2014/07/16

  • Fixed tagEditor for IE8 and IE7. IE7 still has some obvious layout alignment bugs, that can be fixed by conditional CSS rules.

Version 1.0.0-beta - 2014/07/15

  • First release