Bootstrap Tags

Bootstrap Tags is a jQuery plugin meant to extend Twitter Bootstrap to include tagging functionality. It supports Bootstrap 2.3.2 and ≥ 3.0.

Demo

http://maxwells.github.com/bootstrap-tags.html

Installation

$ bower install bootstrap-tags

or

$ git clone https://github.com/maxwells/bootstrap-tags.git
--> js files are located in dist/js, CSS in dist/css

Features

• Support for Bootstrap 2.3.2 and 3+
• Autosuggest (for typing or activated by pressing the down key when empty)
• Bootstrap Popovers (for extended information on a tag)
• Exclusions (denial of a specified list)
• Filters (allowance of only a specified list)
• Placeholder prompts
• Uses bootstrap button-[type] class styling (customizing your bootstrap will change tag styles accordingly)
• Extensible with custom functions (eg, before/after tag addition/deletion, key presses, exclusions)

Usage

<!-- include bootstrap tags js, css files -->
<script src='path/to/bootstrap-tags/dist/js/bootstrap-tags.min.js'></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/bootstrap-tags/dist/css/bootstrap-tags.css" />

<div id="my-tag-list" class="tag-list"></div>
<script>
	$(function() {
		// If using Bootstrap 2, be sure to include:
		// Tags.bootstrapVersion = "2";
		$('#my-tag-list').tags({
			tagData:["boilerplate", "tags"],
			suggestions:["basic", "suggestions"],
			excludeList:["not", "these", "words"]
		});
	});
</script>

Documentation

Settings

The following options are supported. Pass them as a javascript object to the tags jQuery function:

$('selector').tags({
    readOnly: true,
    tagData: ["a", "prepopulated", "list", "of", tags],
    beforeAddingTag: function(tag){ console.log(tag); }
});

option	type	description	default
bootstrapVersion	String	specify which version of bootstrap to format generated HTML for. Acceptable values are "2", "3"	3
tagData	Array	a list of tags to initialize the tagging interface with	[]
tagSize	String	describes what size input to use. Acceptable values are "lg", "md", or "sm"	md
readOnly	boolean	whether or not to disable user input	false
suggestions	Array	a list of terms that will populate the autosuggest feature when a user types in the first character.	[]
caseInsensitive	Boolean	whether or not autosuggest should ignore case sensitivity	false
restrictTo	Array	a list of allowed tags (will be combined with suggestions, if provided). User inputted tags that aren't included in this list will be ignored	[]
exclude	Array	a list of case insensitive disallowed tags. Supports wildcarding (eg. ['*offensive*'] will ignore any word that has offensive in it)	[]
popoverData	Array	a list of popover data. The index of each element should match the index of corresponding tag in tagData array	null
popovers	Boolean	whether or not to enable bootstrap popovers on tag mouseover	whether popoverData was provided
popoverTrigger	String	indicates how popovers should be triggered. Acceptable values are 'click', 'hover', 'hoverShowClickHide'	hover
tagClass	String	which class the tag div will have for styling	btn-info
promptText	String	placeholder string when there are no tags and nothing typed in	Enter tags…
maxNumTags	Integer	Maximum number of allowable (user-added) tags. All tags that are initialized in the tagData property are retained. If set, then input is disabled when the number of tags exceeds this value.	-1 (no limit)
readOnlyEmptyMessage	String	text to be displayed if there are no tags in readonly mode. Can be HTML	No tags to display...
beforeAddingTag	function(String tag)	anything external you'd like to do with the tag before adding it. Returning false will stop tag from being added	null
afterAddingTag	function(String tag)	anything external you'd like to do with the tag after adding it	null
beforeDeletingTag	function(String tag)	find out which tag is about to be deleted. Returning false will stop tag from being deleted	null
afterDeletingTag	function(String tag)	find out which tag was removed by either pressing delete key or clicking the (x)	null
definePopover	function(String tag)	must return the popover content for the tag that is being added. (eg "Content for [tag]")	null
excludes	function(String tag)	return true if you want the tag to be excluded, false if allowed	null

Controlling tags

Some functions are chainable (returns a Tagger object), and can be used to move the data around outside of the plugin.

function	return type	description
hasTag(tag:string)	Boolean	whether tag is in tag list
getTags()	Array	a list of tags currently in the interface
getTagsWithContent()	Array	a list of javascript objects with a tag property and content property
getTag(tag:string)	String	returns tag as string
getTagWithContent(tag:string)	Object	returns object with tag and content property (popover)
addTag(tag:string)	Tagger	add a tag
renameTag(tag:string, newTag:string)	Tagger	rename one tag to another value
removeLastTag()	Tagger	removes last tag if it exists
removeTag(tag:string)	Tagger	removes tag specified by string if it exists
addTagWithContent(tag:string, popoverContent:string)	Tagger	Add a tag with associated popover content
setPopover(tag:string, popoverContent:string)	Tagger	update a tag's associated popover content, if that tag exists

Example:

var tags = $('#one').tags( {
	suggestions : ["here", "are", "some", "suggestions"],
	popoverData : ["What a wonderful day", "to make some stuff", "up so that I", "can show it works"],
	tagData: ["tag a", "tag b", "tag c", "tag d"],
	excludeList : ["excuse", "my", "vulgarity"],
} );
tags.addTag("tag e!!").removeTag("tag b").setPopover("tag c", "Changed popover content");
console.log(tags.getTags());

To reference a tags instance that you've already attached to a selector, (eg. $(selector).tags(options)) you can use $(selector).tags() or $(selector).tags(index)

Building

For a one off:

$ grunt build

To build continuously:

$ grunt watch

Testing

$ grunt test

Contributing

If you spot a bug, experience browser incompatibility, or have feature requests, please submit them here.

If you want to hack away to provide a new feature/bug-fix, please follow these guidelines:

• Make changes to the coffeescript and sass files, not js/css. This is to ensure that the next person who comes in and edits upstream from js/css will not overwrite your changes.
• Create a pull request for your feature branch, updating README documentation if necessary

License

This project rocks and uses the MIT-LICENSE.

Author

Max Lahey