Tag: drag and drop

The complete example to remove element from the list by drag and drop in HTML 5

In the following example, you’ll learn that how can you delete the elements with the help of drag and drop effect in HTML5 and JavaScript. Drag and drop is a very common feature in HTML5.

The Demo allows the user to drag an element (‘li’ HTML tag) from the list and drop the element over right side area (‘div’ HTML element) to remove element from list. Continue reading “The complete example to remove element from the list by drag and drop in HTML 5”

drag and drop only text of the li into textarea in jQuery

I have written various code snippets for drag and drop element from one to another including drag an element and convert it into another element and then drop with the help of jQuery. Continue reading “drag and drop only text of the li into textarea in jQuery”

Create new row in the table after dropping an element using jquery ui

You can see the additional work in drag and drop functionality, When user will drop the element in the last row of the table, then new row will be inserted automatically. Continue reading “Create new row in the table after dropping an element using jquery ui”

Highlight a droppable area on hover using jquery ui

The example contains multiple droppable div elements. You can drag items from the list and can drop to any of these div. When you are dragging an element and it is hovered over a droppable div then that div will highlighted. Continue reading “Highlight a droppable area on hover using jquery ui”

Swap elements when drag and drop one onto another using jQuery UI

Demo shows how to swap elements between two list using drag and drop functionality. The Example have two elements list, you can drag and drop elements from one to another. Continue reading “Swap elements when drag and drop one onto another using jQuery UI”

Drag li element and drop to td of the html table using jQuery UI

The following example shows how to perform drag and drop between li and html table. You can drag items from left-hand side and can drop to td element of the html table. Continue reading “Drag li element and drop to td of the html table using jQuery UI”

Drag and Drop li elements into Textbox


From the below example you can drag a li element from a list and drop it into a textbox with comma separator. Continue reading “Drag and Drop li elements into Textbox”

Example – Drag and Drop li to div

Demo

Drag li elements with the mouse anywhere with in yellow section(div). In this example, you will learn how to drag and drop li elements to div using jQuery UI plugin. See the demo and source code.

Drag from here

  • Item A
  • Item B
  • Item C
  • Item D
  • Item E
  • Item F
  • Item G
  • Item H
  • Item I

Drop here

Source Code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
        .ui-drop-hover
        {
            border: 2px solid #bbb;
        }
        #dragdiv
        {
            width: 180px;
            height: 400px;
            float: left;
        }
        #dropdiv
        {
            width: 380px;
            height: 350px;
            background-color: #F9F887;
            float: right;
            margin-right: 10px;
        }
        #dropdiv li
        {
            padding-left: 10px;
        }
        #maindiv
        {
            width: 600px;
            height: 450px;
            border: 2px solid #bbb;
        }
    </style>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.8.20/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/latest/external/jquery.bgiframe-2.1.2.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/latest/ui/minified/i18n/jquery-ui-i18n.min.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#dragdiv li").draggable({
                appendTo: "body",
                helper: "clone",
                cursor: "move",
                revert: "invalid"
            });
 
            initDroppable($("#dropdiv"));
            function initDroppable($elements) {
                $elements.droppable({
                    activeClass: "ui-state-default",
                    hoverClass: "ui-drop-hover",
                    accept: ":not(.ui-sortable-helper)",
 
                    over: function (event, ui) {
                        var $this = $(this);
                    },
                    drop: function (event, ui) {
                        var $this = $(this);
                        $("<li></li>").text(ui.draggable.text()).appendTo(this);
                        if (this.children.length > 0) {
                            return false;
                        }
 
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="maindiv">
        <div id="dragdiv">
            <h3>
                <span>Drag from here</span></h3>
            <ul id="allItems" runat="server">
                <li id="node1">Item A</li>
                <li id="node2">Item B</li>
                <li id="node3">Item C</li>
                <li id="node4">Item D</li>
                <li id="node5">Item E</li>
                <li id="node6">Item F</li>
                <li id="node7">Item G</li>
                <li id="node8">Item H</li>
                <li id="node9">Item I</li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <h3>
            <span>Drop here</span></h3>
        <div id="dropdiv">
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>