jQuery & jQuery UI Plugin For Simle Tokenized Autocomplete - Autocomplete Multiselect

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jQuery & jQuery UI Plugin For Simle Tokenized Autocomplete - Autocomplete Multiselect

Autocomplete Multiselect is a plugin for jQuery & jQuery UI that turns a standard text input filed into a tokenized autocomplete box. The plugin allows you to select multiple items from a dropdown suggest box and turns the selected items into tokens & tags in an input field.

How to use it:

1. Include reference to the jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Autocomplete Multiselect at the bottom of the page.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> 
<script src="src/jquery.autocomplete.multiselect.js"></script> 

2. Include a jQuery UI's theme CSS in the head section of the page.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"/>

3. Create an Html text input field in the page.

<input id="myAutocomplete" type="text" />

4. Create an array of available tags in the javascript and call the plugin on the input field.

$(function(){
var availableTags = [
    "ActionScript",
    "AppleScript",
    "Asp",
    "BASIC",
    "C",
    "C++",
    "Clojure",
    "COBOL",
    "ColdFusion",
    "Erlang",
    "Fortran",
    "Groovy",
    "Haskell",
    "Java",
    "JavaScript",
    "Lisp",
    "Perl",
    "PHP",
    "Python",
    "Ruby",
    "Scala",
    "Scheme"
];
$('#myAutocomplete').autocomplete({
source: availableTags,
multiselect: true
});
})

This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by gundla. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.