mentions-kinder.js

mentions-kinder is a simple and powerful input ui component that introduces all kinds of tokens/mentions in regular text inputs. Like user mentions you know from Facebook or Google+. It tries to be as configurable and customizable as possible while providing a basic setup you can use right away.

This project is massively inspired by the jquery-mentions-input. We maintained a version internally, collecting various patches and features from forks, but run into too many errors. That's why we decided to write our own version with a few different ideas.

The name is a pun on the german exclamation Menschenskinder, which sounds exactly like mentions-kinder. It can also be interpreted in the way, that this plugin provides all kinds of mentions.

Check the demo page now!

Features

• Multiple trigger chars (i.e. # => tags, @ => mentions, ! => priority)
• Configurable output serialization (i.e. [@Jon Doe](user:id))
• Configurable autocompleters (select2, datepicker, whatever)
• Support IE8

TODO

• Context sensitive trigger, i.e. don't trigger @-mention when entering email address, via regex (/(^|\s)@/), which would support multi-char triggers too
• Remove mention via BACKSPACE in Firefox and IE8 (See this Stackoverflow post)
• Full documentation
• Better Tests
• Try to remove rangy dependency, extract what we really need
• Make jquery optional
• Build with require.js
• Implement datepicker-autocompleter
• Implement autocompleter using Twitter Typeahead

Usage

It's best to check our demo page and its source for now, sorry.

$('textarea').mentionsKinder()