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Diodeus - James MacFarlane
Diodeus - James MacFarlane

Reputation: 114437

jQuery tagging plug-in, how to get user input value?

I am using this tagging plug-in: http://xoxco.com/projects/code/tagsinput/

One thing that is not covered in the docs is how to get currently typed-in value. I need this in order to build the querystring for a custom autocompleter.

$('#tags').tagsInput({    
  autocomplete_url:'http://myserver.com/api/autocomplete?term='(??????),
  autocomplete:{selectFirst:true,width:'100px',autoFill:true}
});

Upvotes: 1

Views: 119

Answers (1)

Diodeus - James MacFarlane
Diodeus - James MacFarlane

Reputation: 114437

Instead of looking at the tagging plug-in for the solution I decided to look at the Autocompleter itself and extract the value from there.

var tags = [ "c++", "java", "php", "coldfusion", "javascript", "asp", "ruby" ];
$( "#autocomplete" ).autocomplete({
  source: function( request, response ) {
          var matcher = new RegExp( "^" + $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex( request.term ), "i" );
          response( $.grep( tags, function( item ){
              return matcher.test( item );
          }) );
      }
});

From here I noticed the request.term variable, which I could then grab for my own Ajax call parameter.

Upvotes: 1

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