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How can I get the id, name value pairs of the tokens (entered by a user) via Javascript from the jquery-tokeninput plugin found here? https://github.com/loopj/jquery-tokeninput

Is it just me or isnt it surprising that this plugin has a lot of features except a straight forward getEnteredTokens() method?

Thanks in advance.

Harindaka
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  • On the demo page, you can get the ids using `$('#tokeninput-demo').val()`: http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/. – pimvdb Jul 14 '11 at 17:55
  • Thanks but this would just give me a comma seperated id list wouldnt it? The ids would be of type string and not the original type which was passed via a JSON array (since val() gets the value of the input type=text ). I need the id,name pairs entered as an array and in their original type. – Harindaka Jul 14 '11 at 18:46

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I know this is kind of late coming, but have you tried: 

selector.tokenInput("get");

for example:

var selectedValues = $('#myinputbox').tokenInput("get");

(where selector is whatever jQuery selector you need to return the tokeninput input object) It returns all of the currently selected id/name values in an object.

ktaylor
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