I am currently working on a form and am stuck on a keyword/tag input field (think youtube.. or even stackoverflow). Anyway, I thought it was pretty logical to use ‘,’ to separate the tags… which would allow users to use combinations of words as tags using ‘ ‘. However my boss wants it separated with just ‘ ‘. Which worries me as I think we will end up with millions of ‘The’ tags. Personally I like the tag system used here on stackoverflow… but its not up to me.
So far my only idea was to have a list of common words that would automatically be removed…. problem being is its an international site, so not much good making a list of English words.
Any ideas?
As the user is typing in the keywords show a preview of the matched keywords right below. This might help clarify to the user that each word separated by spaces is a distinct keyword and that duplicates are eliminated.
Enter keywords: [[[ the house the boat the cat the coat ]]] Keyword preview: [the] [house] [boat] [cat] [coat] *** Warning: Duplicate keywords found. To combine multiple words use a "-"