2.0.2 • Published 5 years ago

angular-mentions-v2 v2.0.2

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MIT
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github
Last release
5 years ago

Angular Mentions V2

Simple Angular mentions inspired by Ment.io and angular-mentions.

Click here for original repo

Provides auto-complete suggestions for @mentions in text input fields, text areas, and content editable fields. Not fully browser tested and comes without warranty!

V2 Feature:

  • Added emitter (onItemSelected) to emit selected object / list item.

To install and start the demo application:

git clone https://github.com/khan019950/angular-mentions
cd angular-mentions
npm install
ng serve

Usage

Add the package as a dependency to your project using:

npm install angular-mentions-v2

Add the CSS to your index.html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">

Add the module to your app.module imports:

import { MentionModule } from 'angular-mentions-v2';
...

@NgModule({
    imports: [ MentionModule ],
    ...
})

Add the [mention] directive to your input element:

<input type="text" [mention]="items">

Where items is a string array of the items to suggest. For example:

items: string[] = ["Noah", "Liam", "Mason", "Jacob", ...

Configuration Options

The following optional configuration items can be used.

OptionDefaultDescription
itemsAn array of strings or objects to suggest.
triggerChar@The character that will trigger the menu behavior.
labelKeylabelThe field to be used as the item label (when the items are objects).
disableSortfalseDisable sorting of suggested items.
disableSearchfalseDisable internal filtering (only useful if async search is used).
dropUpfalseShow the menu above the cursor instead of below.
maxItemsLimit the number of items shown in the text. The default is no limit.
mentionSelectAn optional function to format the selected item before inserting the text.

For Example:

<input type="text" [mention]="items" [mentionConfig]="{triggerChar:'#',maxItems:10,labelKey:'name'}">

Output Events

  • (searchTerm)="" event emitted whenever the search term changes. Can be used to trigger async search.
  • (onItemSelected)="" event emitted with selected object whenever user select item from list.

Alternative Usage

The component can also be used by only specifying the mentionConfig object:

<input type="text" [mentionConfig]="mentionConfig">

With the following structure:

let mentionConfig = {
    items: [ "Noah", "Liam", "Mason", "Jacob", ... ],
    triggerChar: "@",
    ...
}

In this way, multiple config objects can be used:

let mentionConfig = {
    mentions: [
        {
            items: [ "Noah", "Liam", "Mason", "Jacob", ... ],
            triggerChar: '@'
        },
        {
            items: [ "Red", "Yellow", "Green", ... ],
            triggerChar: '#'
        },
    }]
}

This allows different lists and trigger characters to be configured.

Note that becuase objects are mutable, changes to the items within the config will not be picked up unless a new mentionConfig object is created.

(onItemSelected) Usage

component.html :

<input type="text" [mentionConfig]="{labelKey:'name'}" (searchTerm)="serchWithTerm($event)" (onItemSelected)="itemSelected($event)">

component.ts :

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itemSelected(item){
    console.log(item);
}
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serchWithTerm(term){
    // you can call some service to fetch users, entity, etc by keywords or term recieved from event emitter. for e.g.
    this.someAPIservice.getUsers(term).subscribe( result => {
        console.log(result);
    });
}
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