<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" id="bootstrap-css"> <script src="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> <!------ Include the above in your HEAD tag ----------> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <h2>Javascript Auto Slugify</h2> <form class="form"> <div class="form-group"> <input type="text" class="form-control title" placeholder="Type anything..."> </div> <div class="form-group"> <input type="text" class="form-control slug"> </div> </form> </div> </div>

function slugify(text) { // Source: https://gist.github.com/mathewbyrne/1280286 return text.toString().toLowerCase() .replace(/\s+/g, '-') // Replace spaces with - .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '') // Remove all non-word chars .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-') // Replace multiple - with single - .replace(/^-+/, '') // Trim - from start of text .replace(/-+$/, '') // Trim - from end of text .replace(/[\s_-]+/g, '-'); // swap any length of whitespace, underscore, hyphen characters with a single - } $('.title').keyup(function(){ console.log($(this).val()); $slug = slugify($(this).val()); $('.slug').val($slug); });