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How to make facebook like private message

Hi, When you send a private message to someone on FB in the TO field when typing the first letter a suggestion appears then it becomes a little box with the name of the user you selected which can be deleted, anyone got a tutorial on this? thanks

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This looks like it'll do the trick.

alex  2010-10-25 12:57:48
Thanks , looks like a good start.
tada  2010-10-25 13:02:01
help! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4022778/jquery-ui-token
tada  2010-10-27 13:17:36
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You may want to look at this:

http://loopj.com/2009/04/25/jquery-plugin-tokenizing-autocomplete-text-entry/

it's very good for the facebook style tokenizing

Richard  2010-10-25 13:01:48
thank you, looks great.
tada  2010-10-25 13:10:56
Does it work in ie?
tada  2010-10-25 13:17:33
yes, and if you like it, give me a vote up ;-)
Richard  2010-10-25 13:25:24
+2  A: 

Here's another suggestion:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/facebook-style-input-box

Michael Eakins  2010-10-25 15:03:11

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