Facebook style JQuery autocomplete plugin

Question

Im after a plugin to do autocomplete like facebook does in that you can select multiple items - similar to how tagging a stackoverflow question works.

Here are a couple I ran into:

• http://wharsojo.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/jquery-facebook-autocomplete
• http://www.emposha.com/javascript/fcbkcomplete.html
• http://github.com/loopj/jQuery-Tokenizing-Autocomplete-Plugin

Have you tried any of these? Were they easy to implement and customize?

Answer 1

http://github.com/loopj/jQuery-Tokenizing-Autocomplete-Plugin

I just had a go at this one and it was really easy to implement using an asp.net page to output the JSON (from the search params) Then theres just a few lines of Javascript you need to create it (and the settings)

$(document).ready(function() {
        $("#Users").tokenInput("../Services/Job/UnassignedUsers.aspx?p=<%= projectID %>&j=<%= jobID %>", {
        hintText: "Begin typing the user name of the person you wish to assign.",
        noResultsText: "No results",
        searchingText: "Searching..."
    });
});

Answer 2

this one very googd! http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/autosuggest-jquery-plugin

Answer 3

This is the original JQuery autocomplete plugin before it was integrated into JQueryUI. If you are looking to serve just JQuery but not the entire JQueryUI library, use this one. I have used this one in the past and have been happy with it.

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/