Question

What solutions accomplish the same auto-completion that SO uses for entering tags?

There are plugins that can handle one word but I haven’t seen any that handle multiple words.

Answer 1

In order of activity, demos/examples available, and simplicity:

• (demo) https://github.com/yairEO/tagify
• (demo) https://github.com/aehlke/tag-it
• (demo) https://ioncache.github.io/Tag-Handler/
• (demo) http://textextjs.com/
• (demo) https://github.com/webworka/Tagedit
• (demo) https://github.com/documentcloud/visualsearch/
• (demo) http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/ (this isn’t really a tagging plugin)
• (demo?) http://bootstrap-tagsinput.github.io/bootstrap-tagsinput/examples/
• (demo?) http://jcesar.artelogico.com/jquery-tagselector/
• (demo?) http://remysharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/tagging.php
• (demo?) http://pietschsoft.com/post/2011/09/09/Tag-Editor-Field-using-jQuery-similar-to-StackOverflow.aspx

Related:

• https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100669/feedback-wanted-improved-tag-editor