diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index c2a16ba5..5d044857 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ Check the [examples.html](http://aehlke.github.com/tag-it/examples.html) for sev
 
 First, load [jQuery](http://jquery.com/) (v1.4 or greater), [jQuery UI](http://jqueryui.com/) (v1.8 or greater), and the plugin:
 
-    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
-    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.12/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+
+    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
     <script src="js/tag-it.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
 If you're using a custom jQuery UI build, it must contain the Core, Widget, Position, and Autocomplete components. The Effects Core with "Blind" and "Highlight" Effect components are optional, but used if available.
@@ -293,4 +294,3 @@ The `<input>` field which is used for entering new tags. It's a jQuery object, s
 ## License
 
 tag-it is released under the [MIT license](http://github.com/aehlke/tag-it/raw/master/LICENSE).
-
diff --git a/examples.html b/examples.html
index 90113216..189cc437 100644
--- a/examples.html
+++ b/examples.html
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 
     <!-- jQuery and jQuery UI are required dependencies. -->
     <!-- Although we use jQuery 1.4 here, it's tested with the latest too (1.8.3 as of writing this.) -->
-    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
-    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.9.2/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
     <!-- The real deal -->
     <script src="js/tag-it.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
                 singleFieldNode: $('#mySingleField')
             });
 
-            // singleFieldTags2 is an INPUT element, rather than a UL as in the other 
+            // singleFieldTags2 is an INPUT element, rather than a UL as in the other
             // examples, so it automatically defaults to singleField.
             $('#singleFieldTags2').tagit({
                 availableTags: sampleTags
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
                 availableTags: sampleTags,
                 removeConfirmation: true
             });
-            
+
         });
     </script>
 
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@
 
 <a href="http://github.com/aehlke/tag-it"><img style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; border: 0;" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/github/ribbons/forkme_right_white_ffffff.png" alt="Fork me on GitHub" /></a>
 
-<div id="wrapper"> 
-    <div id="header"> 
-        <h2>Tag-it! Usage Examples</h2> 
-        
+<div id="wrapper">
+    <div id="header">
+        <h2>Tag-it! Usage Examples</h2>
+
         <ul id="nav">
             <li><a href="http://aehlke.github.com/tag-it">&laquo; back to widget home</a></li>
         </ul>
     </div>
-    
+
     <div id="content">
         <p>These demo various features of Tag-it. View the source to see how each works.</p>
 
@@ -259,15 +259,14 @@ <h3>Remove Confirmation</h3>
     </div>
 
 
-    <div id="footer"> 
+    <div id="footer">
         <div class="left">
             <p>Built with <a href="http://jquery.com/" target="_blank">jQuery</a> and <a href="http://jqueryui.com/" target="_blank">jQuery UI</a>.</p>
             <p>Originally created by <a href="http://levycarneiro.com/">Levy Carneiro Jr</a>. Currently maintained by <a href="http://github.com/aehlke">Alex Ehlke</a>.</p>
         </div>
         <p class="right weak">Template adopted from <a href="http://orderedlist.com/demos/fancy-zoom-jquery/">orderedlist.com</a></p>
         <br class="clear"/>
-    </div> 
+    </div>
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>
-
diff --git a/js/tag-it.js b/js/tag-it.js
index 078c264f..a74117a6 100644
--- a/js/tag-it.js
+++ b/js/tag-it.js
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
                 this.options.singleFieldNode = this.element;
                 this.element.addClass('tagit-hidden-field');
             } else {
-                this.tagList = this.element.find('ul, ol').andSelf().last();
+                this.tagList = this.element.find('ul, ol').addBack().last();
             }
 
             this.tagInput = $('<input type="text" />').addClass('ui-widget-content');
@@ -588,4 +588,3 @@
 
     });
 })(jQuery);
-
diff --git a/js/tag-it.min.js b/js/tag-it.min.js
index fd6140c8..c372f620 100644
--- a/js/tag-it.min.js
+++ b/js/tag-it.min.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 (function(b){b.widget("ui.tagit",{options:{allowDuplicates:!1,caseSensitive:!0,fieldName:"tags",placeholderText:null,readOnly:!1,removeConfirmation:!1,tagLimit:null,availableTags:[],autocomplete:{},showAutocompleteOnFocus:!1,allowSpaces:!1,singleField:!1,singleFieldDelimiter:",",singleFieldNode:null,animate:!0,tabIndex:null,beforeTagAdded:null,afterTagAdded:null,beforeTagRemoved:null,afterTagRemoved:null,onTagClicked:null,onTagLimitExceeded:null,onTagAdded:null,onTagRemoved:null,tagSource:null},_create:function(){var a=
-this;this.element.is("input")?(this.tagList=b("<ul></ul>").insertAfter(this.element),this.options.singleField=!0,this.options.singleFieldNode=this.element,this.element.addClass("tagit-hidden-field")):this.tagList=this.element.find("ul, ol").andSelf().last();this.tagInput=b('<input type="text" />').addClass("ui-widget-content");this.options.readOnly&&this.tagInput.attr("disabled","disabled");this.options.tabIndex&&this.tagInput.attr("tabindex",this.options.tabIndex);this.options.placeholderText&&this.tagInput.attr("placeholder",
+this;this.element.is("input")?(this.tagList=b("<ul></ul>").insertAfter(this.element),this.options.singleField=!0,this.options.singleFieldNode=this.element,this.element.addClass("tagit-hidden-field")):this.tagList=this.element.find("ul, ol").addBack().last();this.tagInput=b('<input type="text" />').addClass("ui-widget-content");this.options.readOnly&&this.tagInput.attr("disabled","disabled");this.options.tabIndex&&this.tagInput.attr("tabindex",this.options.tabIndex);this.options.placeholderText&&this.tagInput.attr("placeholder",
 this.options.placeholderText);this.options.autocomplete.source||(this.options.autocomplete.source=function(a,e){var d=a.term.toLowerCase(),c=b.grep(this.options.availableTags,function(a){return 0===a.toLowerCase().indexOf(d)});this.options.allowDuplicates||(c=this._subtractArray(c,this.assignedTags()));e(c)});this.options.showAutocompleteOnFocus&&(this.tagInput.focus(function(b,d){a._showAutocomplete()}),"undefined"===typeof this.options.autocomplete.minLength&&(this.options.autocomplete.minLength=
 0));b.isFunction(this.options.autocomplete.source)&&(this.options.autocomplete.source=b.proxy(this.options.autocomplete.source,this));b.isFunction(this.options.tagSource)&&(this.options.tagSource=b.proxy(this.options.tagSource,this));this.tagList.addClass("tagit").addClass("ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all").append(b('<li class="tagit-new"></li>').append(this.tagInput)).click(function(d){var c=b(d.target);c.hasClass("tagit-label")?(c=c.closest(".tagit-choice"),c.hasClass("removed")||a._trigger("onTagClicked",
 d,{tag:c,tagLabel:a.tagLabel(c)})):a.tagInput.focus()});var c=!1;if(this.options.singleField)if(this.options.singleFieldNode){var d=b(this.options.singleFieldNode),f=d.val().split(this.options.singleFieldDelimiter);d.val("");b.each(f,function(b,d){a.createTag(d,null,!0);c=!0})}else this.options.singleFieldNode=b('<input type="hidden" style="display:none;" value="" name="'+this.options.fieldName+'" />'),this.tagList.after(this.options.singleFieldNode);c||this.tagList.children("li").each(function(){b(this).hasClass("tagit-new")||