The new TextboxList is here

It’s been some time since TextboxList got some attention. It is undoubtedly one of my most popular JavaScript projects, along with the famous Fancy Menu (MorphList) and its slideshow sibling, BarackSlideshow.

TextboxList (demo) has been rewritten from scratch, and it’s more solid than ever. The first time around, elegance was not one of the goals. I focused on releasing the first open source script that reproduced the Facebook’s tokenizer.

Let’s see the new changes:

TextboxList

  • Compatible with MooTools 1.2.x
  • New options, such as addOnEnter, which adds boxes upon pressing enter (useful for tags or categories widgets).
  • More events, which gives the developer more power to extend it.
  • Each element is now identified by an id, a plain value and a HTML value.
  • Use of control, alt, meta keys no longer interfere with the elements keyboard navigation.
  • Bugs with text selection fixed.
  • Improved API, even more extensible.
  • Plugins support

Textboxlist.Autocomplete

This is the most important official plugin. It also has been rewritten, and packs new features:

  • Flexible. It does not depend on a specific data source (XHR, Json). Instead, the developer supplies the data which can come from anywhere.
  • Binary search for maximum performance
  • Simpler CSS with comments for non-experienced developers.

Without further ado, head to the project page to check out the demos and downloads.