From 6d8d9d9a4fc3eb21016f589be68a4e5054bd7cd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Brown <ben@xoxco.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:22:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug in tagExist

---
 jquery.tagsinput.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jquery.tagsinput.js b/jquery.tagsinput.js
index 399d1c7..513c635 100644
--- a/jquery.tagsinput.js
+++ b/jquery.tagsinput.js
@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@
 		};
 	
 	$.fn.tagExist = function(val) {
-		return (jQuery.inArray(val, $(this)) >= 0); //true when tag exists, false when not
+
+		var settings = $(this).data('settings');
+		var tagslist = $(this).val().split(settings.delimiter);		
+		return (jQuery.inArray(val, tagslist) >= 0); //true when tag exists, false when not
 	};
 	
 	// clear all existing tags and import new ones from a string