tagly v1.0.2

Tagly

Tagly is a tag input component in which provides lots of features and easiness.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Options
• Methods

Features

• Supports mixed (tags and text) and tag-only input
• Allows read-only prop for tags
• Disallows duplicated tags
• Supports tag insertion from external events
• Even Tagly loses focuses, external tags can be added wherever your caret is
• Supports allowed-tags (whitelist)
• Tags can be editable

Installation

npm install --save tagly

Usage

import {Tagly} from 'tagly'

var tagly = new Tagly({
  ...options
})

Options

mixed (optional, defaults to true)

Input behavior can be changed by "mixed" option. Either it can be used with tag and text together or it could be utilized as tag-only. Tags are created with curly braces {string} in mixed mode. When it is false, tags are added pressing Enter.

duplicate (optional, defaults to true)

Duplicate option allows or disallows tags to be created more than one.

defaultValue (optional, defaults to "")

Preferred value to be inserted as a starting value.

allowedTags (optional, defaults to [])

A whitelist in which only specified tag data will be represented as tag. If a tag data does not exist in list, it will be treated as a string. Tagly does not accept any kind of data structure. It must contain label and value.

const options = {
  //...options
  allowedTags = [{
    label: "First Tag", value:"first_tag",
    label: "Second Tag", value: "second_tag"
  }]
 }

readOnly (optional, defaults to true)

Either you can edit tag by double clicking or they just stay as it is.

containerClassName (optional, defaults to undefined)

Tagly will be inserted specified containerClassName.

changeHandler (optional, defaults to undefined)

A change listener which will be fired any change to the input value has occured. It has one string parameter

const changeHandler = (newValues) => {
		...do something
}

const options = {
  //...options
  changeHandler
 }

Methods

addExternalTag

Tag will be inserted at last saved caret position.

var tagly = new Tagly({
  ...options
})

tagly.addExternalTag('tagToBeAdded')