JQuery plugin for tab-completing text, for example for usernames in a chat window.
$(selector).tabcomplete(options);
where options contains only one element, collection, which can either be an array of strings or a function(word) returning an array based on a word (the word the cursor was located at when the user pressed tab). Supports all input types supported by caret.js
Note: the values are not cached by tabcomplete.js - if you load values via ajax or similar, caching will be left to you.
$("textarea").tabcomplete({collection: ["some user",
"some user1",
"someuser2",
"someuser3",
"some user4",
"some user5",
"another user",
"another user24"]});
If the collection is an array, as seen above, it will suggest only entries that start with the word the caret is at. This filtering is not applied to collection: function(word), as seen below. Suggestions are cycled respecting the order in which the items appear in the collection, therefore a deterministic order is suggested.
allusers = ["some user",
"some user1",
"someuser2",
"someuser3",
"some user4",
"some user5",
"another user",
"another user24"];
$("textarea").tabcomplete({collection: function(word)
{
// return the array items that start with the word
return allusers.filter(function(v){return v.indexOf(word)==0;});
}
});
Live demo: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/KpVZmz