Question

I would like to implement a functionality similar to jQuery TagIt into C# windows forms.
Here is the link for jQuery – http://aehlke.github.com/tag-it/

I am thinking of creating a user control for this functionality.

Any help on how to go about this?

Answer 1

You’re in luck, as there’s already a container control called a FlowLayoutPanel that will get you 90% of the way there as a flowing tag host.

FlowLayoutPanel Class @ MSDN

This control is available from the Toolbox in Visual Studio, so a good starting point would be to make a custom control based upon a FlowLayoutPanel, and another custom control to represent a tag based upon a Label or Checkbox, and update the drawing and behavior (in the case of a Label) to respond to clicks and to display the [x] to dismiss the tag.

Label Class @ MSDN
CheckBox Class @ MSDN

After making these two controls, you will need to do additional work to make your FlowLayoutPanel-derived control add/remove Label-based controls representing the state of the tags present.

Update: One thing I missed, a TextBox or other input field would need to be added in place to support adding new tags.

TextBox @ MSDN