--- title: Tokenfield for Bootstrap ---

# Tokenfield for Bootstrap

Advanced tagging/tokenizing plugin for jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap with a focus on keyboard and copy-paste support.

- Copy & paste support
- Keyboard navigation
- Edit existing tokens
- Multiple lines of tokens
- Responsive

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# Tokenfield %VERSION%

## Examples

Create elegant taggable fields with copy/paste and keyboard support.

Using jQuery UI Autocomplete

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %} {% highlight js %} $('#tokenfield').tokenfield({ autocomplete: { source: ['red','blue','green','yellow','violet','brown','purple','black','white'], delay: 100 }, showAutocompleteOnFocus: true }) {% endhighlight %}

Using Twitter Typeahead

{% highlight html %} {% endhighlight %} {% highlight js %} var engine = new Bloodhound({ local: [{value: 'red'}, {value: 'blue'}, {value: 'green'} , {value: 'yellow'}, {value: 'violet'}, {value: 'brown'}, {value: 'purple'}, {value: 'black'}, {value: 'white'}], datumTokenizer: function(d) { return Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace(d.value); }, queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace }); engine.initialize(); $('#tokenfield-typeahead').tokenfield({ typeahead: [null, { source: engine.ttAdapter() }] }); {% endhighlight %}

## Usage

### Trigger tokenfield via JavaScript:

{% highlight js %} $('.tokenfield').tokenfield() {% endhighlight %}

### Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to `data-`, as in `data-minLength=""`.

Name | type | default | description
--- | --- | --- | ---
tokens | string, array | `[]` | Tokens (or tags). Can be a string with comma-separated values (`"one,two,three"`), an array of strings (`["one","two","three"]`), or an array of objects (`[{ value: "one", label: "Einz" }, { value: "two", label: "Zwei" }]`)
limit | int | `0` | Maximum number of tokens allowed. 0 = unlimited.
minLength | int | `0` | Minimum length required for token value.
minWidth | int | `60` | Minimum input field width. In pixels.
autocomplete | object | `{}` | jQuery UI Autocomplete options
showAutocompleteOnFocus | boolean | `false` | Whether to show autocomplete suggestions menu on focus or not. Works only for jQuery UI Autocomplete, as Typeahead has no support for this kind of behavior.
typeahead | array | `[]` | Arguments for Twitter Typeahead. The first argument should be an options hash (or `null` if you want to use the defaults). The second argument should be a dataset. You can add multiple datasets: `typeahead: [options, dataset1, dataset2]`
createTokensOnBlur | boolean | `false` | Whether to turn input into tokens when tokenfield loses focus or not.
delimiter | string, array | `','` | A character or an array of characters that will trigger token creation on keypress event. Defaults to ',' (comma). Note - this does not affect Enter or Tab keys, as they are handled in the keydown event. The first delimiter will be used as a separator when getting the list of tokens or copy-pasting tokens.
beautify | boolean | `true` | Whether to insert spaces after each token when getting a comma-separated list of tokens. This affects both value returned by `getTokensList()`and the value of the original input field.``
inputType | string | `'text'` | HTML type attribute for the token input. This is useful for specifying an HTML5 input type like `'email'`, `'url'` or `'tel'` which allows mobile browsers to show a specialized virtual keyboard optimized for different types of input. This only sets the type of the visible token input but does not touch the original input field. So you may set the original input to have `type="text"` but set this inputType option to `'email'` if you only want to take advantage of the email style keyboard on mobile, but don't want to enable HTML5 native email validation on the original hidden input.

#### Data attributes for individual tokenfields

Options for individual tokenfields can alternatively be specified through the use of data attributes, as explained above.

#### Styling Twitter Typeahead

Twitter Typeahead comes with no default styling. Make sure to include tokenfield-typeahead.css on your page.

### Methods

#### .tokenfield(options)

Initializes an input with a tokenfield.

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield(); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('setTokens', tokens)

Manually set the tokenfield content (replacing the old content)

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('setTokens', 'blue,red,white'); $('#myField').tokenfield('setTokens', ['blue','red','white']); $('#myField').tokenfield('setTokens', [{ value: "blue", label: "Blau" }, { value: "red", label: "Rot" }]); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('createToken', token)

Manually create a token and append it to the input

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('createToken', 'purple'); $('#myField').tokenfield('createToken', { value: 'violet', label: 'Violet' }); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('getTokens', active)

Get an array of tokens from the input. Set `active` to true to return only selected tokens.

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('getTokens'); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('getTokensList', delimiter, beautify, active)

Get a comma-separated list of the tokens from the input. You can use an alternative separator by supplying also a `delimiter` argument. Setting `beautify` to false will prevent adding a space after each token. Set `active` to true to return only selected tokens.

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('getTokensList'); $('#myField').tokenfield('getTokensList', '; '); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('disable')

Disable tokenfield (just like a normal input field)

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('disable'); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('enable')

Enable tokenfield (just like a normal input field)

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('enable'); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('readonly')

Make tokenfield a readonly field (just like a normal input field)

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('readonly'); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('writeable')

Make tokenfield writeable (just like a normal input field)

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('writeable'); {% endhighlight %}

#### .tokenfield('destroy')

Destroy tokenfield and restore original input

{% highlight js %} $('#myField').tokenfield('destroy'); {% endhighlight %}

#### Accessing original input

Though not recommended, you can access the original input field like so: `$('#tokenfield').data('bs.tokenfield').$input`

You can also set new options for the autocomplete or typehead objects from the original input above like so: `$('#tokenfield').data('bs.tokenfield').$input.autocomplete({source: new_array})`

### Events

Tokenfield exposes a few events for hooking into it's functionality.

Event | Description
--- | ---
tokenfield:initialize | Fires after Tokenfield has been initialized.
tokenfield:createtoken | This event fires when a token is all set up to be created, but before it is inserted into the DOM and event listeners are attached. You can use this event to manipulate token value and label by changing the appropriate values of `attrs` property of the event. See below for an example. Calling `event.preventDefault()` or doing `return false` in the event handler will prevent the token from being created.
tokenfield:createdtoken | This event is fired after the token has been created. Here, `attrs` property of the event is also available, but is basically read-only. You can also get a direct reference to the token DOM object via `e.relatedTarget`. The example below uses this to set an 'invalid' class on the newly created token if it does not pass validation.
tokenfield:edittoken | This event is fired just before a token is about to be edited. This allows you to manipluate the input field value before it is created. Again, to do this, manipluate the `attrs` property of the event. Here you can also access the token DOM object with `e.relatedTarget`. Calling `event.preventDefault()` or doing `return false` in the event handler will prevent the token from being edited.
tokenfield:editedtoken | This event is fired when a token is ready for being edited. It means that the token has been replaced by an input field.
tokenfield:removetoken | This event is fired right before a token is removed. Here you can also access the token DOM object with `e.relatedTarget`. Calling `event.preventDefault()` or doing `return false` in the event handler will prevent the token from being removed. You can access token label and value by checking the `attrs` property of the event. Also, `e.relatedTarget` is a reference to the token DOM object.
tokenfield:removedtoken | This event is fired right after a token is removed from the DOM. You can access token label and value by checking the `attrs` property of the event.

The example below is pretty comprehensive. Here, we split user input into two parts: name and email. Then, we validate the email and if it is not valid, we add an `invalid` class to the token.

When the user starts to edit the token, we merge token value and label together again.

{% highlight js %} $('#tokenfield') .on('tokenfield:createtoken', function (e) { var data = e.attrs.value.split('|') e.attrs.value = data[1] || data[0] e.attrs.label = data[1] ? data[0] + ' (' + data[1] + ')' : data[0] }) .on('tokenfield:createdtoken', function (e) { // Über-simplistic e-mail validation var re = /\S+@\S+\.\S+/ var valid = re.test(e.attrs.value) if (!valid) { $(e.relatedTarget).addClass('invalid') } }) .on('tokenfield:edittoken', function (e) { if (e.attrs.label !== e.attrs.value) { var label = e.attrs.label.split(' (') e.attrs.value = label[0] + '|' + e.attrs.value } }) .on('tokenfield:removedtoken', function (e) { alert('Token removed! Token value was: ' + e.attrs.value) }) .tokenfield() {% endhighlight %}

### Keyboard support

Tokenfield includes support for manipulating tokens via keyboard

#### left, right arrow keys

Arrow keys will move between active tokens. Try it out: click on one of the tokens and press left and right arrow keys

#### Backspace and delete

You can delete a selected token with backspace or delete keys. Try it out now:

#### Ctrl + A / Cmd + A, Ctrl + C / Cmd + C, Ctrl + V, Cmd + V

If You have one token selected, you can select all tokens with the keyboard. Then, you can copy the tokens using keyboard. You can also paste tokens to another field.

### Copy & paste support

You can copy tokens from a tokenfield and paste them to any other field as comma-separated values. When you paste to another tokenfield, they will become tokens there, aswell!

Try it out, copy the following to the field below: violet,yellow,brown

### Validation states

Tokenfield also supports all the default validation states from Bootstrap

Input with success
Input with warning
Input with error

### Various examples of using tokenfield

Using tokenfield with input groups

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Using tokenfield with input group checkboxes and radio buttons

Using tokenfield with buttons in input groups

Using tokenfield with different sizes

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Disabled tokenfield

Disabled fieldset with tokenfield

Disabled input
Disabled tokenfield

Tokenfield in inline form

Tags

Tokenfield in horizontal form

Email
Password
Tags

Tokenfield with fluid and fixed widths (50%, 300px, etc...)

Width: 50% (from stylesheet)
Width: 300px (from stylesheet)
Width: 400px (inline)

Tokenfield with RTL direction