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taggingjs

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taggingJS

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A jQuery/Zepto plugin to make tagging easy.

taggingJS is a jQuery/Zepto plugin to create a highly customizable tagging UI. It is less than 3 kb and supports all major browsers!

The key api differnces between this and the main project is that jQuery or Zepto is passed in as first argument.

** other additions **

  • support for browserify
  • support for component
  • events if event emitter is passed in options argument

Getting Started

You can find a working example in Codepen.io or in the project's GitHub page.

Simplest

  1. Download the tagging.min.js file from this repository;

  2. Include <script src="path/to/tagging.min.js"></script> to the bottom of your page;

  3. Optional - Include the basic CSS tag style <link href="tag-basic-style.css" rel="stylesheet"> to the <head> of your page;

  4. Add to your page something like <div data-tags-input-name="tag" id="tagBox">preexisting-tag</div>;

  5. Add to your main JavaScript file $("#tagBox").tagging();;

The data-tags-input-name="tag" is the name attribute used by each input inside the tagBox.

Customize

There are several ways to customize the default behavior of taggingJS:

  1. Use a JavaScript custom_options object to customize the global taggingJS behavior (see First Way);

  2. Use data attributes in the tagBox HTML Markup (see Second Way);

  3. Use a combination of the first two way (see Third Way);

N.B.: Be careful! data attributes have an higher priority than the custom_options object, because each data attribute overwrite the global behavior. In other words, the global settings work for all tags box captured, unless in these are specified data attributes (which may change the behavior).

First Way - Global Object

  1. Create a custom options object, like this my_custom_options (see Available Options):

    var my_custom_options = {
        "no-duplicate": true,
        "no-duplicate-callback": window.alert,
        "no-duplicate-text": "Duplicate tags",
        "type-zone-class": "type-zone",
        "tag-box-class": "tagging",
        "forbidden-chars": [",", ".", "_", "?"]
    };

  2. Create a tag box (or multiple tag box) like this:

    <div id="tagBox">preexisting-tag</div>

  3. Add to your main JavaScript file:

    $("#tagBox").tagging(my_custom_options);

In this way, we customize the global behavior of taggingJS for all tag box caught with selector.

Second Way - Data Attributes

  1. Create a tag box with some data attributes, like this (see Available Options):

    <div
        data-no-duplicate="true"
        data-pre-tags-separator="\n"
        data-no-duplicate-text="Duplicate tags"
        data-type-zone-class="type-zone"
        data-tag-box-class="tagging"
        data-edit-on-delete="true"
    id="tagBox">preexisting-tag</div>

  2. Add to your main JavaScript file:

    $("#tagBox").tagging();

N.B.: Use data method with no-duplicate-callback and forbidden-chars can cause some problems. Avoid it.

Third Way - Mixed Way

In this way, we mix data attributes and options object to customize taggingJS behavior for each tag box.

  1. Create a tag box with some data attributes, like this:

    <div class="tag-box"
        data-no-duplicate="true"
        data-tags-input-name="tag"
    id="tagBox1">preexisting-tag</div>

  2. Create another tag box with no data attributes:

    <div id="tagBox1" class="tag-box">preexisting-tag</div>

  3. Create a custom options object, like this my_custom_options (see Available Options):

    var my_custom_options = {
        "no-duplicate": false,
        "tags-input-name": "taggone",
        "edit-on-delete": false,
    };

  4. Add to your main JavaScript file

    $(".tag-box").tagging(my_custom_options);

Now you may see that:

  • The #tagBox1 has a behavior that overwrite some my_custom_options options:

    • Does not accept duplicate tag (for the respective data attribute);
    • For each tag, it has tag as input name (for the respective data attribute);
    • On delete, the tag is completely removed (for the my_custom_options);

  • The #tagBox2 has a behavior dictated only by my_custom_options:

    • Accept duplicate tag (for the my_custom_options);
    • For each tag, it has tag as input name (for the my_custom_options);
    • On delete, the tag is completely removed (for the my_custom_options);

Available Options

Below there are the available options to customize taggingJS with a little description, a type and the default value:

Option Type Default Description
case-sensitive Boolean false If false, all text is treated like lowercase.
close-char String "&times;" Single Tag close character.
close-class String "tag-i" Single Tag close class.
edit-on-delete Boolean true true to edit tag that has just been removed from tag box.
forbidden-chars Array ["," , ".", "_", "?"] Array of forbidden characters.
forbidden-chars-callback Function window.alert Function to call when is detected a forbidden character.
forbidden-chars-text String "Forbidden character:" Basic text passed to forbidden-chars-callback.
forbidden-words Array [] Array of forbidden words.
forbidden-words-callback Function window.alert Function to call when is detected a forbidden words.
forbidden-words-text String "Forbidden word:" Basic text passed to forbidden-words-callback.
no-backspace Boolean false Backspace key remove last tag by default, true to avoid that.
no-comma Boolean false Comma "," key add a new tag by default, true to avoid that.
no-del Boolean false Del key remove last tag by default, true to avoid that.
no-duplicate Boolean true If true, there will be no duplicate tag's name in the tag box.
no-duplicate-callback Function window.alert Function to call when is detected a duplicate tag.
no-duplicate-text String "Duplicate tag:" Basic text passed to no-duplicate-callback.
no-enter Boolean false Enter key add a new tag by default, true to avoid that.
no-spacebar Boolean false Spacebar key add a new tag by default. true to avoid that.
pre-tags-separator String ", " This is used to split the initial text and add preexistint-tag. By default, you must put new tags using a comma and a space (", ").
tag-box-class String "tagging" Class of the tag box.
tag-char String "#" Single Tag char.
tag-class String "tag" Single Tag class.
tags-input-name String "tag" Name to use as name="" in single tags' input. By default, all tags being passed as array like tag[].
type-zone-class String "type-zone" Class of the type-zone.

Contribute

Set Up nodeJS and Grunt

  1. Fork the repository;

  2. Open a shell in project's directory;

  3. Type npm install (make sure you have installed nodeJS);

  4. Type grunt to execute the default script (without minification), grunt dist to also minify the script (make sure you have installed Grunt).

JavaScript Style Guide

I follow the jQuery's JavaScript style guide, please follow it you too :D

Requirements

  • jQuery (1.5.X or more, also 2.X works);

Browser Support

Supports all major browsers in the world (IE 6+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Google Chrome 1+, Safari 5.1+).

License

(C) Fabrizio Fallico 2014, released under the MIT license.

Changelog

1.2.5 - [Apr 10, 2014]

  • Fix #5 issue;
  • Changed pre-tags-separator and no-spacebar default value;
  • Improved code formatting;

1.2.3 - [Apr 06, 2014]

  • Add case-sensitive option;
  • Add forbidden-words option to block some words inside a tag, with callback and text;
  • Add callback and text to as forbidden-chars option;
  • Fixed i.handler.apply is not function bug;
  • Updated README.md with all Available Options;
  • Improved code formatting;
  • Passed to Semantic Versioning;
  • Add taggingJS to jQuery Plugin Registry;
  • Minor fix;

1.1 - [Mar 27, 2014]

  • Add chance to use custom options;
  • Add no-duplicate option to avoid duplicate tag (with custom callback);
  • Add forbidden-chars option to block some characters inside a tag;
  • Updated README.md with all Available Options;
  • Updated example;
  • Improved code formatting;
  • Minor fix;

1.0 - [Mar 22, 2014]

  • First Commit;

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