Ponjimon / jquery-hashtags

This jQuery plugin allows it to automatically highlight hashtags in textareas like those on facebook.

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jquery-hashtags

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This jQuery plugin allows it to automatically highlight hashtags in textareas like those on facebook.

Demo

http://lookapanda.github.io/jquery-hashtags/

Integrating with your Application

Include the following files in your HTML and you are good to go.

 <link href="css/jquery.hashtags.css" rel="stylesheet">
 <script src="js/jquery-2.1.4.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="js/jquery.autosize.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="js/jquery.hashtags.js" type="text/javascript"></script>`

 $(document).ready(function() {
    $("textarea").hashtags();
 });

Bower

For installing using Bower you can use bower install jquery-hashtag-highlighter

NPM

This plugin is also available in npm with npm install jquery-hashtags