Tag Suggest

If you're familiar with del.icio.us you will be familiar with the tag suggesting as-you-type support.

The reason why the tagging works so well within del.icio.us is that it helps you create a subset of tags that you commonly use for different types of links. This way, it makes it easier to find tagged content later on. i.e. conversely if it didn't suggest links, it would be likely that you would have different variations or even spellings of the same tag on (what should be) grouped content.

Plugin parameters:

tags - array of tags specific to this instance of element matches, defaults to global tags
url - url to get suggestions, overrides any specifically set tags. Must return array of suggested tags as JSON
sort - boolean to force the sorted order of suggestions, defaults to false
matchClass - class applied to the suggestions, defaults to blank
tagContainer - the type of element uses to contain the suggestions, defaults to 'span'
tagWrap - the type of element the suggestions a wrapped in, defaults to 'span'
delay - sets the delay between keyup and the request - can help throttle ajax requests, defaults to zero delay

The plugin has been tested with:

IE 7
Firefox 2
Safari 3
Opera 9

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Posted on the 27th of February at 12:05 pm

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