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-jQuery Tokeninput: A Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry
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-Overview
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-Tokeninput is a jQuery plugin which allows your users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook.
+# jQuery Tokeninput: A Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry
 
-Documentation, Features and Demos
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-Full details and documentation can be found on the project page here:
+## Overview
 
-<http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/>
+Tokeninput is a jQuery plugin which allows your users to select multiple items
+from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item.
+You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients
+field sending messages on facebook.
+
+## Features
+
+- Intuitive UI for selecting multiple items from a large list
+- Easy to skin/style purely in css, no images required
+- Supports any backend which can generate JSON, including PHP, Rails, Django, ASP.net
+- Smooth animations when results load
+- Select, delete and navigate items using the mouse or keyboard
+- Client-side result caching to reduce server load
+- Crossdomain support via JSONP
+- Callbacks when items are added or removed from the list
+- Preprocess results from the server with the onResult callback
+- Programatically add, remove, clear and get tokens
+- Customize the output format of the results and tokens
+
+## Screenshots
+
+![List style](list-style.png)
+
+Vertical list style item selection
+
+![List style](facebook-style.png)
+
+Facebook style item selection
+
+## Installation & Setup
+
+### Create a server-side script to handle search requests
+
+Create a server-side script (PHP, Rails, ASP.net, etc) to generate your
+search results. The script can fetch data from wherever you like, for
+example a database or a hardcoded list. Your script must accept a GET parameter
+named `q` which will contain the term to search for. E.g.
+<http://www.example.com/myscript?q=query>
+
+Your script should output JSON search results in the following format:
+
+```javascript
+[
+    {"id":"856","name":"House"},
+    {"id":"1035","name":"Desperate Housewives"},
+    ...
+]
+```
+
+You may optionally specify an attribute of "readonly" and set it to true if you
+would like some of the tokens to be non-removable:
+
+```javascript
+[
+    {"id":"856","name":"House","readonly":true},
+    {"id":"1035","name":"Desperate Housewives"},
+    ...
+]
+```
+
+Note that you may omit "readonly" on entities where it is not necessary. This
+attribute is acceptable wherever JSON entities are passed, e.g. .tokenInput("add")
+(see Methods section below).
+
+### Include and initialize the plugin
+
+Include jQuery and Tokeninput Javascript and stylesheet files on your page, and
+attach to your text input:
+Tokeninput stylesheet:
+
+```html
+<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="yourfiles/jquery.tokeninput.js"></script>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yourfiles/token-input.css" />
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+$(document).ready(function () {
+    $("#my-text-input").tokenInput("/url/to/your/script/");
+});
+</script>
+```
+
+## Configuration
+
+The tokeninput takes an optional second parameter on intitialization which
+allows you to customize the appearance and behaviour of the script, as well as
+add your own callbacks to intercept certain events. The following options are
+available:
+
+### Search Settings
+
+method
+:   The HTTP method (eg. GET, POST) to use for the server request. *default:
+    "GET"*.
+
+queryParam
+:   The name of the query param which you expect to contain the search term
+    on the server-side. *default: "q"*.
+
+searchDelay
+:   The delay, in milliseconds, between the user finishing typing and the
+    search being performed. *default: 300*
+
+minChars
+:   The minimum number of characters the user must enter before a search is
+    performed. *default: 1*
+
+propertyToSearch
+:   The javascript/json object attribute to search.
+    *default: "name"*
+
+jsonContainer
+:   The name of the json object in the response which contains the search
+    results. This is typically used when your endpoint returns other data in
+ addition to your search results.
+ Use `null` to use the top level response object. *default: null*.
+
+crossDomain
+:   Force JSONP cross-domain communication to the server instead of a normal
+    ajax request. Note: JSONP is automatically enabled if we detect the search
+ request is a cross-domain request. *default: false*.
+
+### Pre-population Settings
+
+prePopulate
+:   Prepopulate the tokeninput with existing data. Set to an array of JSON
+    objects, eg: `[{id: 3, name: "test"}, {id: 5, name: "awesome"}]`
+    to pre-fill the input. *default: null*
+
+### Display Settings
+
+hintText
+:   The text to show in the dropdown label which appears when you first click
+    in the search field. *default: "Type in a search term"*
+
+noResultsText
+:   The text to show in the dropdown label when no results are found which
+    match the current query. *default: "No results"*
+
+searchingText
+:   The text to show in the dropdown label when a search is currently in
+    progress. *default: "Searching..."*
+
+deleteText
+:   The text to show on each token which deletes the token when clicked. If
+ you wish to hide the delete link, provide an empty string here.
+ Alternatively you can provide a html string here if you would like to
+ show an image for deleting tokens.
+    *default: &times;*
+
+animateDropdown
+:   Set this to `false` to disable animation of the dropdown *default: true*
+
+theme
+:   Set this to a string, eg "facebook" when including theme css files to set
+    the css class suffix
+
+resultsLimit
+:   The maximum number of results shown in the drop down. Use `null` to show
+    all the matching results. *default: null*
+
+resultsFormatter
+:   A function that returns an interpolated HTML string for each result. Use
+    this function with a templating system of your choice, such as jresig
+    microtemplates or mustache.js. Use this when you want to include images or
+    multiline formatted results
+    *default: `function(item){ return "<li>" + item.propertyToSearch + "</li>" }`*
+
+tokenFormatter
+:   A function that returns an interpolated HTML string for each token. Use
+    this function with a templating system of your choice, such as jresig
+    microtemplates or mustache.js. Use this when you want to include images or
+    multiline formatted tokens. Quora's people invite token field that returns
+    avatar tokens is a good example of what can be done this option.
+    *default: `function(item){ return "<li><p>" + item.propertyToSearch + "</p></li>" }`*
+
+### Tokenization Settings
+
+tokenLimit
+:   The maximum number of results allowed to be selected by the user. Use
+    `null` to allow unlimited selections. *default: null*
+
+tokenDelimiter
+:  The separator to use when sending the results back to the server.
+ *default: ","*.
+
+preventDuplicates
+:   Prevent user from selecting duplicate values by setting this to `true`.
+    *default: false*
+
+tokenValue
+:   The value of the token input when the input is submitted. Set it to `id`
+    in order to get a concatenation of token IDs, or to `name` in order to
+    get a concatenation of names. *default: id*
+
+### Callbacks
+
+onResult
+:   A function to call whenever we receive results back from the server. You
+    can use this function to pre-process results from the server before they
+    are displayed to the user. *default: null*
+
+onAdd
+:   A function to call whenever the user adds another token to their
+    selections. *defaut: null*
+
+onDelete
+:   A function to call whenever the user removes a token from their selections.
+    *default: null*
+
+onReady
+:   A function to call after initialization is done and the tokeninput is ready
+    to use. *default: null*
+
+## Methods
+
+`selector.tokenInput("add", {id: x, name: y});`
+:   Add a new token to the tokeninput with id `x` and name `y`.
+
+`selector.tokenInput("remove", {id: x});`
+:   Remove the tokens with id `x` from the tokeninput.
+
+`selector.tokenInput("remove", {name: y});`
+:   Remove the tokens with name `y` from the tokeninput.
+
+`selector.tokenInput("clear");`
+:   Clear all tokens from the tokeninput.
+
+`selector.tokenInput("get");`
+:   Gets the array of selected tokens from the tokeninput (each item being an object of the kind `{id: x, name: y}`).
+
+## Reporting Bugs or Feature Requests
+
+Please report any bugs or feature requests on the github issues page for this
+project here:
+
+<https://github.com/loopj/jquery-tokeninput/issues>
+
+## License
+
+Tokeninput is released under a dual license. You can choose either the GPL or
+MIT license depending on the project you are using it in and how you wish to
+use it.