As designed Tags only work if you select an option or type in a comma

dethfire

dethfire

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Affected version
2.1
Tags don't work unless you select an existing tag or enter a comma at the end. If you just enter a tag and click outside of the entry box, it clears the entry.
 
This is likely working as intended, as those kind of input boxes are actually dynamically generated select boxes under the hood, if I'm not mistaken.

In other words, if you want to add a new selection, you have to confirm the selection in some way. When you do, it adds a selection to the hidden drop-down, which is why the back-end code is able to read it as a list of entries.
 
It's possible to have either behaviour, but the change was made intentionally. See here for the reason:
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Fixed - Conversation recipients: Pressing escape should cancel instead of confirm

How to reproduce: Go to https://xenforo.com/community/conversations/add and start typing a recipient name, wait until the autocomplete popup appears with the first entry preselected, then press the escape key. Expected behaviour: The autocomplete popup should just disappear and not implicitly...
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I see arguments for both approaches but not going to make any changes now.
 
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