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draggables
Draggable elements.
Basic Usage
$ npm install draggables
<!-- HTML -->
<body>
<div data-drag-role="draggable"></div>
</body>
// js / ts
import {draggables} from 'draggables';
draggables(contextElm, options);
Section Links:
- Context Element
- Boundary Element
- Data Attributes
- Instance API:
Context Element
Default - document.body
NOTE: The context element is not necessarily a draggable element.
The context element is the element that listens to pointerdown events for all draggable elements within it.
Each instance binds a single event listener to the context element, or to the <body> element, if ommited.
Boundary Element
To prevent users from dragging an element off-screen and being unable to retrieve it, a boundary element is always defined.
By default, the <body> element acts as the global movement container for all draggable elements. However, you can designate a different element as the boundary of its descendant draggable elements by adding the data-drag-zone attribute to it.
So a draggable element's dragging zone is its closest parent with the data-drag-zone attribute or the <body> element.
Data Attributes
Using different data attributes you can control the dragging behavior.
To make an element "draggable" set its
data-drag-roleattribute to"draggable".
data-drag-zone- Set this attribute (key only, no value) on the element you want to define as the boundary element of its descendant draggable elements (see Boundary Element).data-drag-role="draggable" | "grip""draggable"- Makes the element draggable.
Can be used together with:-
data-drag-axis="x" | "y"
By default you can drag elements freely on both axes. You can Limit an element's movement to a single axis."x"- Limit dragging movment along thexaxis."y"- Limit dragging movment along theyaxis.
-
data-drag-disabled"true"- Disables dragging"false"- Enables dragging
Set this attribute when you need to toggle draggability of a draggable element.
This toggles draggability of a single draggable element. If you want to disable all draggables in a context see.disable()below.
-
"grip"- The element becomes the handle of its closest draggable element. When used, draggable elements can only be dragged when grabbed by their grip element. A grip must be a descendant of a draggable element (throws an error when it's not).
data-drag-prevent-click- When dragging an element by one of its clickable elements (button, checkbox etc.) they get clicked on drop. Set this attribute (key only, no value) on clickable elements inside a draggable element to prevent their click event on drop.
Example:
<div
class="card"
data-drag-role="draggable"
data-drag-axis="x"
data-drag-disabled="false"
>
<div class="card-title" data-drag-role="grip">
Grab here!
</div>
<div class="card-body">
Grab the title to move the card
<button data-drag-prevent-click>
Click
</button>
</div>
</div>
"read-only" data attributes
Not actually read-only attributes per se but you probably should not change them.
data-drag-active (key only attribute)
While dragging an element it is set with a "read-only" data attribute: data-drag-active . It is removed on drop. This is mostly for styling purposes.
[data-drag-active] {
background-color: yellow;
}
data-drag-position="x,y"
Elements are moved around using CSS translate(x, y) which sets a relative position to an element's natural position (in pixels). When dropping an element its [x,y] position is saved as numeric values in the data-attribute (e.g. data-drag-position="30,-14"). This position will be used as the starting point of the next drag.
Initial Position
data-drag-position can be used for setting draggable elements with initial position. To make it work you should also set the inline style of the element with the equivalent translate values:
<div
data-drag-role="draggable"
data-drag-position={`${x}, ${y}`}
style:translate={`${x}px ${y}px`} // svelte
style={{translate: `${x}px ${y}px`}} // react
>
...
elm.style.translate = `${x}px ${y}px` // vanilla
Instance API
draggables(contextElement, options)
arguments
contextElement: HTMLElement- optional. See Context Element section above.options: DraggablesOptions- optional. The instance's configuration object, applied for all draggable elements under the context element:padding: number- Blocks dragStart if the draggable element was grabbed by its edge within this number of pixels. Default is0.cornerPadding: number- Blocks dragStart if the draggable element was grabbed by its corner within this number of pixels. Default is0.
draggables(); // --> <body>
draggables({padding: 8}); // --> <body>
draggables(myElm);
draggables(myElm, {padding: 8});
The padding options are for dealing with draggable elements that are also resizable (by grabbing their corners/edges).
Returns a Draggables instance:
const d = draggables();
It has the following methods:
.enable() / .disable()
Toggle draggability for all draggable elements within the context. When disabled, the main element gets a 'drag-disabled' classname.
const d = draggables();
// draggability is enabled on construction
d.disable();
d.enable();
Note: Calling
.disable()on an instance disables draggability for all draggable elements withing the context element. You can disable specific draggable elements using the disable data attribute. See Data Attributes.
.on(eventName, callback) / .off(eventName)
Start and stop listening to drag events:
'grab'- fires onpointerdownon a draggable element.'dragStart'- drag started, fires on the firstpointermovethat crosses the threshold (3px, hardcoded).'dragging'- dragging around, fires on everypointermoveexcept the first one.'dragEnd'- dragging ended, fires onpointerup.
A Draggables instance can only hold a single event listener for each event (unlike an EventEmitter):
const doSomething = () => {...}
const doSomethingElse = () => {...}
const stopDoingThing = () => {...}
const d = draggables()
.on('dragStart', doSomething) // <-- this is replaced
.on('dragStart', doSomethingElse) // <-- by this (same event)
.on('dragEnd', stopDoingThing)
d.off('dragStart');
Event Handlers
The event handlers get called with a DragEventWrapper object which holds 3 properties:
ev- the vanilla pointer event (typePointerEvent)elm- the draggable element, which is not always theev.target(typeHTMLElement),relPos- the draggable element's relative position (in pixels), that is, relative to its pre-drag position (type[x: number, y: number])
draggables().on('dragging', (dragEv: DragEventWrapper) => {
console.log(
dragEv.elm, // e.g. <div data-drag-role="draggable">
dragEv.ev.target, // e.g. <div data-drag-role="grip">
dragEv.relPos // e.g. [3, -8] (on 'grab' events it's always [0,0])
);
});
.destroy()
Kills the Draggables instance for good, unbinds event listeners, releases element references. Once destroyed, an instance cannot be revived. Use it when the context element is removed from the DOM.
FAQs
Draggable elements.
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Package last updated on 22 Jan 2025
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