Basic Drag and Drop

The YUI Drag and Drop Utility lets you make HTML elements draggable.

For this example, we will enable drag and drop for the three <div> elements.

Create the demo elements:

Now we instantiate three YAHOO.util.DD instances. By default, a mousedown on any part of source element would start a drag operation. We use setHandleElId to make it so that only a specific area or areas of the source element will start a drag when clicked.

Elements that are not a child of the source element can be used as drag handles by using setOuterHandleElId. <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var dd, dd2, dd3; YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function() { dd = new YAHOO.util.DD("dd-demo-1"); // Configure one or more child element as a drag handle dd.setHandleElId("dd-handle-1a"); dd.setHandleElId("dd-handle-1b"); dd2 = new YAHOO.util.DD("dd-demo-2"); dd2.setHandleElId("dd-handle-2"); dd3 = new YAHOO.util.DD("dd-demo-3"); dd3.setHandleElId("dd-handle-3a"); // A handle that is not child of the source element dd3.setOuterHandleElId("dd-handle-3b"); }); })(); </script>

Configuration for This Example

You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers. Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured.