intelogie/jquery-textext

Version 2.0 in development

Please note that there's version 2.0 in active development. Checkout the #2.0.0-wip branch for more fun action! CoffeeScript and full Jasmine coverage - fun stuff!, _(*1)

About

TextExt is a plugin for jQuery which is designed to provide functionality such as tag input and autocomplete., _(*2)

The core design principle behind TextExt is modularity and extensibility. Each piece of functionality is separated from the main core and can act individually or together with other plugins., _(*3)

TextExt's modular design allows you easily turn a standard HTML text input into a wide range of modern, tailored to your needs input field without bloating your source code and slowing down your site with the code that you aren't using., _(*4)

A wide number of plugins are available including Tags, Autocomplete, Filter, Ajax as well as a few which are purely aesthetic like Focus., _(*5)

Please refer to the manual for the full API documentation and examples., _(*6)

Features

• Tags
• Autocomplete
• AJAX loading
• Placeholder text
• Arrow
• ... and much more!

Example

<textarea id="textarea" rows="1"></textarea>

How To Use

The steps to using TextExt are as follows:, _(*7)

1. Specify which plugins you need via the plugins option
2. Configure each plugin individually if necessary
3. Enjoy!

History

1.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed jQuery 1.8.x compatability (issue #74).

1.3.0

New Features

• Added tagClick event to the tags plugin (issue #13). See the example.
• Prompt plugin now checks placeholder attribute (issue #8). See the example.
• Clicking on item in autocomplete will automatically add that item to tags #2.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes getter methods created when plugins are initialized. (issue #20).
• Fixed issues #4, #4 and #10 related to the mouse issues in the autocomplete dropdown.
• Fixed textext.[pluginName]() (issue #20).

1.2.0

• Added ability to get instances of plugins to call methods on them directy (issue #6). See the example.

1.1.0

New Features

• Added autocomplete.render option for custom rendering. See the manual and example.
• Added autocomplete.dropdown.maxHeight option for setting height of the dropdown. See manual and example.
• Added Arrow plugin.
• Switched to MIT license.

Bug Fixes

• TextExt core now works with <input/> tags.
• Filter plugin now works without Tags.
• Fixed clicking on suggestion in autocomplete dropdown.

1.0.0

• Initial release.

License

The TextExt component is released under the open source MIT. This means that you can use it any way you want, but I would very much appreciate if you take a minute and support the project through a donation., _(*8)

Contributors

Alphabetically:, _(*9)

• adamayres (Adam Ayres)
• alexyoung (Alex Young)
• cmer (Carl Mercier)
• deefour (Jason Daly)
• KoernerWS (Florian Koerner)
• sstok (Sebastiaan Stok)