Twitter-style autocomplete in textarea

Question

I am looking for a Javascript autocomplete implementation which includes the following:

• Can be used in a HTML textarea
• Allows for typing regular text without invoking autocomplete
• Detects the @ character and starts autocomplete when it is typed
• Loads list of options through AJAX

I believe that this is similar to what Twitter is doing when tagging in a tweet, but I can't find a nice, reusable implementation.
A solution with jQuery would be perfect.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Another great library which solves this problem At.js (deprecated)

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Demo

They are now suggesting the Tribute library

https://github.com/zurb/tribute

Example