Active Tags - jQuery enabled Taxonomy widget

Summary

Active Tags adds a new option to free tagging taxonomies. If selected the taxonomy widget is replaced by a new jQuery enabled tag entry widget.

This module came about through work on a site where some users found separating tags with commas confusing. Some users got it, and some didn't. This resulted in a site littered with concatenated tags. Wordpress has a similar tag entry mechanism where tags are entered separately. It has been implemented here using jQuery to rewrite the standard taxonomy entry form.

Configuration

Simply install the module as usual then edit the vocabulary settings to enable the new tag entry widget. To edit or create your vocabulary browse to Administer >> Content Management >> Taxonomy >> edit vocabulary. There is a checkbox labelled "Active Tags" at the bottom of the vocabulary edit page.

Once you turn on the Active Tags checkbox the entry widget will be swapped for the enhanced jQuery enabled tag entry widget.

Browsers that don't support Javascript are not affected and see a standard tag entry box.

Customisation

You can change the appearance of the tag display by overriding the active_tags.css file in your theme. To do this enter the following in your theme.info file:

stylesheets[all][] = active_tags.css

then create a copy of active_tags.css within your theme folder.