jquery - Facebook tagging

Question

Is there a plugin that has similar behavoir like the Facebook tagging?

Whats so special about this, is that it features:

• Autocomplete in between typed words
• Special outputted html (which is synced with another input field)

Answer 1

you can use jquery mention inputs plugin its similar to facebook mentions

or you can use jquery sew plugin

Answer 2

You can use the JQuery UI widget : which allows you to create a list of special words which will suggest + autocomplete te word when the user starts typing it.

You can handle the special formatted html by using the callback when a special word is chosen:

$( ".selector" ).autocomplete({
select: function( event, ui ) {}
});

Added:
It's also possible to trigger it in the middle of a sentence, I did found an example on JSfiddle which allows you to do this.

Press the @ anywhere in the sentence and type the first letter. You can change the select callback if you want some custom html arround it.

http://jsfiddle.net/UdUrk/

Hope this brings you closer to the solution.

Kevin

Answer 3

I'm glad you were able to find a solution that seems to fit your needs, OP. For anyone else who happens to stumble upon this (and OP if my assumption was wrong) who is looking for a robust, actively-maintained solution...

...check out Mentionator : it is a jQuery plug-in which enables clients to create highlighted references to ("mentions") to predefined entities in text areas. It is mantained by this guy right here :) .