Touch support - delete items?

[mattpi]

Works great on touch devices, with one exception, there's no way to delete multiple selected items.

[brianreavis]

This should be an easy fix by keeping the input textbox in focus but hidden (this.focus(false)) so that the device keyboard stays up. I'll try to look into it this evening. Thanks!

[mattpi]

Awesome, look forward to seeing that. I have to say, on the subject, it's not entirely obvious that multiple items are navigable / removable using the keyboard, hence the reason why other UI implementations, such as Select2, have a remove icon (x) option.

[brianreavis]

It turns out this was more involved than I had thought—forcing an input to have focus is essentially impossible on mobile WebKit. To resolve this, I made some adjustments to ensure the input never loses focus while in use. It now should behave as it does on the desktop.

As for the point about adding an (x) to the selected items, that might be something worth looking into. In the short term, it wouldn't hurt to at least add some examples on how to do that with the API. I just created a separate issue for getting that demo done: #9.

When making this, I wondered how much that was a copout for development ease and lack of proper caret control. But maybe you're right, maybe the (x)'s should be part of the default behavior.

[brianreavis]

@mattpi Check out "examples/plugins.html" for an example of the (x) remove icon. There's now a plugin that provides that functionality: "remove_button".

[kpwebb]

I'm seeing a related problem on touch devices where it's impossible to clear the select box on a single select list. I can type text but I can backspace over an existing item to clear the select. Is this a known issue related to the above, or it this something new?

I'm adding the items programmaticly (both via ajax and vi direct JS entry via the API) but not sure if that's related to the clearing, as it works fine on non touch browsers.

[kpwebb]

Ah, n/m looks like this is related to #113 not the above.