Bootstrap Tokenfield

A jQuery tagging / tokenizer input plugin for Twitter's Bootstrap, by the guys from Sliptree

Check out the demo and docs

Installation

Requirements: jQuery 1.9+, Bootstrap 3+ (only CSS)

1. Install via npm or bower (recommended) or manually download the package
2. Include dist/bootstrap-tokenfield.js or dist/bootstrap-tokenfield.min.js in your HTML
3. Include dist/css/bootstrap-tokenfield.css in your HTML

Usage

$('input').tokenfield()

Features

• Copy & paste tokens with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
• Keyboard navigation, delete tokens with keyboard (arrow keys, Shift + arrow keys)
• Select specific tokens with Ctrl + click and Shift + click
• Twitter Typeahead and jQuery UI Autocomplete support

FAQ

How can I prevent duplicate tokens from being entered?

You can use the tokenfield:createtoken event for that. Check the event.attrs property for token value and label, and the run your duplicate detection logic. If it's a duplicate token, simply do event.preventDefault().

Here's a simple example that checks if token's value is equal to any of the existing tokens' values.

$('#my-tokenfield').on('tokenfield:createtoken', function (event) {
    var existingTokens = $(this).tokenfield('getTokens');
    $.each(existingTokens, function(index, token) {
        if (token.value === event.attrs.value)
            event.preventDefault();
    });
});

And how about limiting tokens to my typeahead/autocomplete data?

Similarly, using tokenfield:createtoken, you can check to see if a token exists in your autocomplete/typeahead data. This example checks if the given token already exists and stops its entry if it doesn't.

$('#my-tokenfield').on('tokenfield:createtoken', function (event) {
    var available_tokens = bloodhound_tokens.index.datums
    var exists = true;
    $.each(available_tokens, function(index, token) {
        if (token.value === event.attrs.value)
            exists = false;
    });
    if(exists === true)
        event.preventDefault();
})

Changelog

See release notes

Previous releases:

0.10.0

• Fixed: Entering a duplicate token does not submit the underlying form anymore
• Fixed: Selecting a duplicate token from autocomplete or typeahead suggestions no longer clears the input
• Improved: Trying to enter a duplicate tag now animates the existing tag for a little while
• Improved: Tokenfield input has now autocomplete="off" to prevent browser-specific autocomplete suggestions
• Changed: triggerKeys has been renamed to delimiter and accepts a single or an array of characters instead of character codes.

0.9.9-1

• Fixed: setTokens now respects triggerKeys option

0.9.8

• New: triggerKeys option
• Fixed: Long placeholders are not being cut off anymore when initializing tokenfield with no tokens #37
• Fixed: createTokensOnBlur no more breaks token editing #35

0.9.7 Valuable

• Fixed: Twitter Typeahead valueKey support #18
• Fixed: Removing multiple tokens returned wrong data #30
• Fixed: If token is removed in beforeEdit event, no longer falls over #27, #28
• Fixed: Change event was triggered on initialization #22
• Fixed: When token is removed in tokenfield:preparetoken event, no longer tries to create a token
• Fixed: Pressing comma key was not handled reliably
• New: prevetDuplicateToken event
• Improved: Typeahead integration
• Improved: styling
• Minor tweaks, fixes, improvements

0.9.5 Typeable

• New: Twitter Typeahead support
• New: When triggering 'change' event on original input, setTokens is now called. This allows you to update tokens externally.
• Fixed: Nnput labels did not work with tokenfield
• Fixed: Set correct input width on fixed-width inputs

0.9.2 Maintenance release

• Many small fixes and improvements

0.9.0 Bootstrappable

• New: Bootstrap 3 support
• New: Input group support
• New: Disable/enable tokenfield
• New: Tokenfield is now responsive
• Deprecated: Bootstrap 2 support

0.7.1

• Fixed: pressing comma did not create a token in Firefox
• Fixed: tokenfield('getTokensList') returned array instead of string

0.7.0 Autocompleted

• New feature: jQuery UI Autocomplete support

0.6.7 Crossable

• Fixed: Firefox close icon was misplaced
• New: IE 8-10 support (both CSS and Javascript)

0.6.5 Shiftable

• New feature: select specific tokens with Ctrl/Shift + click
• New feature: select specific tokens with Shift + arrow keys
• Internal API improvements

0.6 Editable

• New feature: Edit existing tokens by double-clicking or pressing enter
• A lot of improvements and bugfixes

0.5 Initial release