JQuery autocomplete plugin for text field and free text

Question

Is there a jQuery plugin similar to Facebook that offers / autocompletes the following criteria:

• Works for textarea or contenteditable div. I find many plugins that only support input fields (e.g. http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/ ).
• Supports free text, a combination of tags and text without tags. This is an example that allows you to enter tags only after clicking: http://brianreavis.imtqy.com/selectize.js/ - this is NOT free text. Free text examples: At.js ( http://ichord.imtqy.com/At.js ), jquery-textcomplete ( http://yuku-t.com/jquery-textcomplete ) and jquery.mentionsInput ( http: // podio.imtqy.com/jquery-mentions-input )
• CSS effect similar to Pill with backspace / delete functionality. http://yuku-t.com/jquery-textcomplete/ is pretty close, but the styling example does not have the removal functionality found in other plugins. Example 1 has good deletion functionality.

Here is an example from Zapier that does this well:

Answer 1

Found rich_textarea that matches all the criteria.

https://github.com/Yermo/rich_textarea

Answer 2

Despite the fact that you have found a plugin that suits your needs, I decided that I would offer an alternative (for you and anyone who might stumble upon this). The more fun, isn't it?

Mentionator exceeds * all your requirements, and is also easier and compatible with a large number of browsers (at the same time it can be attached to <textarea> elements) than rich_textarea (the subject plugin of the accepted answer at the time of publication).

Perhaps I should mention that Mentionator is truly supported by you :).

* Mentionator provides the doesRecognizeDelimitedSubstrings and delimValue options , which are described in the Mentionator documentation as:

 doesRecognizeDelimitedSubstrings: A boolean which, if defined as true, will allow the external value of a mention, herein called "mentionExternalValue", to sustain modifications so long as the result of each such modification is in mentionExternalValue.split(delimValue) delimValue: A string, or regular expression representing the set of strings, that, given doesRecognizeDelimitedSubstrings === true, delimit mentionExternalValue substrings that can also serve as external value of the mention if yielded by a modification of mentionExternalValue