diff --git a/js/tag-it.js b/js/tag-it.js
index 078c264f..b9963cb8 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');
diff --git a/js/tag-it.min.js b/js/tag-it.min.js
index fd6140c8..1b5cb516 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").andBack().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")||