# How to use TagChooser in a theme component/plugin

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**Created:** [August 13, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-tagchooser-in-a-theme-component-plugin/236112 "2022-08-13T14:38:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-tagchooser-in-a-theme-component-plugin/236112/2 "2022-08-15T19:00:25Z")

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Is it that `@tags` needs to get an array of tag objects and not just an array of tag names? And rather than throwing some error to point out how silly I am, it just does nothing?

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