I’m looking for a “Facebook style” or “tokenizing” autosuggest plugin for jQuery allowing multiple selections from the suggested list as well as new entries.
This plugin does exactly what I need, but it requires Mootools as it seems: http://devthought.com/projects/mootools/textboxlist/
The known plugins for jQuery out there seem to be either not allowing new entries (which are not on the list of suggestions) or are only tokenizing e.g. email addresses but don’t have any autosuggest functionality.
Here’s what I had looked at so far:
- https://github.com/sbfaulkner/jquery.token-field (no autosuggest)
- http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/ (no new entries)
- http://www.emposha.com/javascript/fcbkcomplete.html (no new entries)
- http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/autosuggest-jquery-plugin (no new entries)
Did I miss one?
Actually, Drew Wilson’s autoSuggest does allow for adding new tokens. I got to use it — well, not exactly itself, rather a saner fork of it: https://github.com/alanhogan/AutoSuggest — which brings us to the major problem with this thing: it’s not maintained properly. Neither did I like a funny (generated) input field which gets the results nor an apparent inability to restrict entering new tokens.