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Tag Input

A field where typing a word and pressing Enter turns it into a removable chip.

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What it adds

The input control for attaching tags to a record: type to filter, Enter to commit, Backspace to remove, chips for what is already there.

What your agent is told to do

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  1. 1

    Build the control only. The tag catalog itself — scoping, renaming, deleting, filtering lists by tag — is owned by Labels and Tags; extend that rather than building a second one.

  2. 2

    Normalise on commit, not on every keystroke: trim whitespace, collapse runs of spaces, apply the app's case rule. Rewriting the value while someone is mid-word makes the field feel broken.

  3. 3

    Support two modes: create-new-allowed and existing-only. In existing-only mode the field must say so rather than silently swallowing an unmatched entry.

  4. 4

    Make the whole thing keyboard-drivable: arrow keys through suggestions, Enter to commit, Backspace on an empty input to target the last chip, Escape to close the suggestion list.

  5. 5

    Do not re-specify listbox roles and announcements — Accessible Multi-Select owns those semantics. Reuse them.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Punctuation people mean to keep, like C++ or .NET, must survive normalisation.
  • A tag that normalises to one already attached is a duplicate — reject it quietly and flash the existing chip rather than adding a second.
  • Backspace must delete the last chip in one press only after the input is empty, and it should select before it destroys.
  • Pasting a comma- or newline-separated list should create several tags at once, not one tag containing commas.
  • A very long tag must not push the input off the row; wrap or truncate the chip, never the field.
  • Removing a chip must return focus somewhere sensible, not to the top of the document.

Definition of done

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  • Tags can be created, selected, and removed without touching the mouse.
  • Normalisation happens on commit and never rewrites the value mid-typing.
  • Duplicates after normalisation cannot be added.
  • Existing-only mode refuses unknown values with a visible message.
  • Pasting a delimited list produces separate tags.
  • The catalog itself is read from Labels and Tags, not duplicated here.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

Related features

How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

  2. 2

    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

  3. 3

    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.