Rails - Jun 2006 - Draggable question

Should / will a drag and drop work on a form element (select menu,
text box, etc), and more specifically is it simply a matter of
defining a new draggable and setting it to the id of the element, or
do I need more voodoo in my mojo :) to accomplish it ?

TIA
Stuart

I think the real hazard here is that form elements need to be clickable 
to give focus. Users might be frustrated by a form element that is 
itself draggable.

You''d probably be better off putting your form field in a cointaining 
div that has something that can be used as a more convenient dragging 
handle. For instance, you could put a label and a field together and 
have the label act as the handle, or use a graphical drag handle.

Set the handle parameter in your Draggable with the ID of the child 
element that will act as a handle.


stuart fellowes wrote:
> Should / will a drag and drop work on a form element (select menu,
> text box, etc), and more specifically is it simply a matter of
> defining a new draggable and setting it to the id of the element, or
> do I need more voodoo in my mojo :) to accomplish it ?
> 
> TIA
> Stuart

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It makes sense to use a handle instead of the element itself.  Thank
you for that suggestion.  The probem though is right now I can get
neither the element or the handle to move.  Cross bars are not coming
up either.  Both FF 1.5.x and IE 6/7 are not throwing up any errors.
Javascript is NOT turned off on my browser.  Very weird.

Stuart

On 6/23/06, Steve Koppelman <hatlessnyc@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I think the real hazard here is that form elements need to be clickable
> to give focus. Users might be frustrated by a form element that is
> itself draggable.
>
> You''d probably be better off putting your form field in a
cointaining
> div that has something that can be used as a more convenient dragging
> handle. For instance, you could put a label and a field together and
> have the label act as the handle, or use a graphical drag handle.
>
> Set the handle parameter in your Draggable with the ID of the child
> element that will act as a handle.
>
>
> stuart fellowes wrote:
> > Should / will a drag and drop work on a form element (select menu,
> > text box, etc), and more specifically is it simply a matter of
> > defining a new draggable and setting it to the id of the element, or
> > do I need more voodoo in my mojo :) to accomplish it ?
> >
> > TIA
> > Stuart
>
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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