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dex3703
dex3703

Reputation: 2107

jQuery: stop absolute positioning of dragged elements?

I am a complete jQuery and Javascript noob trying to get a very simple drag and drop live demo working. I am getting close but my dragged elements are given absolute positioning, so they don't flow nicely together.

Markup is very simple:

<section class="favrecentboxessection" id="favorites"> 

    little divs with the style set to draggable 

</section> 

<section class="favrecentboxessection" id="recents"> 

    where they are dragged to

</section>

And my sad little jQuery:

        $( init );

    var $favorites = $( "#favorites" ),
        $recent = $( "#recent" );


    function init() {
        $('.favrecentbox').draggable( {
            cursor: 'move',
            containment: '#mainsection',
            stack: '.favrecentbox',
            revert: 'invalid',
            revertDuration: 200,
        } );

            $('.favrecentboxessection').droppable( {
            accept: ".favrecentbox",
            activeClass: 'ui-state-highlight',
                drop: function (event, ui) {
                handleDropEvent (ui.draggable);
                }
        } );

        function handleDropEvent( $item ) {

        var temp;
        temp = $item.detach();
        temp.appendTo( $('#favorites'));

I've got the dragging working, but when dropped they carry over absolute positioning (left, top, etc are set). How do I turn that off?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1992

Answers (3)

Marco Johannesen
Marco Johannesen

Reputation: 13134

No need to make it more complicated than it already is. Removing CSS seems like a bad idea.

See: http://jsfiddle.net/MPy9n/6/

draggableOptions = { appendTo: "body", zIndex: 99};

$( ".favrecentbox" ).draggable(draggableOptions);

$( ".favrecentboxessection" ).droppable({
    activeClass: "ui-state-default",
    hoverClass: "ui-state-hover",
    accept: ":not(.ui-sortable-helper)",
    drop: function( event, ui ) {
        console.log(ui);
        $( ui.draggable ).remove();
        $( '<div class="favrecentbox"></div>' ).html( ui.draggable.html() ).draggable(draggableOptions).appendTo( this );
    }});

Upvotes: 1

Tim Joyce
Tim Joyce

Reputation: 4517

you could add it as a child to the droppable container when dropped.

$('.favrecentboxessection').droppable( {
        accept: ".favrecentbox",
        drop: function(ev, ui) {
            $(this).append($(ui.draggable));
            $(ui.draggable).css({position:'relative'});
        },
        activeClass: 'ui-state-highlight',
            drop: function (event, ui) {
            handleDropEvent (ui.draggable);
            }
    } );

Upvotes: 0

Matthewhall58
Matthewhall58

Reputation: 102

You can try using $(x).css() to manipulate CSS after the drop.....

Upvotes: 1

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