OOUI/Elements/Draggable

OOUI comes with two mixins that wrap around the HTML5 Drag and Drop API, OO.ui.mixin.DraggableElement and OO.ui.mixin.DraggableGroupElement. These OOUI implementations ease the use of the API.

By default:

• OO.ui.TagItemWidget is a DraggableElement.
• OO.ui.TagMultiselectWidget is a DraggableGroupElement.

A draggable element must be within a container that is a draggable group element in order to function.

A DraggableGroupElement will aggregate the drop events (dragend, dragstart, and drop), which means it will listen to all of these events from its children, and reorder them accordingly.

Configuration

A draggable group element can have two different orientations, vertical and horizontal. These orientations control how the draggable elements within the container will be positioned relative to each other.

• When the orientation is vertical, the elements inside will be inline blocks, sitting next to each other and cross over to the next line when the line is filled up.
• When the orientation is horizontal, the elements will be blocks, sitting on top of each other.

It's possible to configure what part of a draggable element can be dragged in. By default, the entire element is draggable.

Events

A DraggableElement emits these drag events:

• dragend indicates that the user released their mouse after dragging an item, which ends the drag operation.
• dragstart indicates that the user clicks and hold their mouse on an item and is starting to drag the item.
• drop indicates that the user released their mouse on an item onto a valid target.

A DraggableGroupElement emits these drag events:

• drag indicates that the user is dragging an item to a new position, but hasn't dropped it yet.
• draggable indicates that the draggable state has changed.

Examples

The below example shows a drag operation being done inside a vertical-oriented DraggableGroupElement, with handles. This is available from the OOUI demo, which you can interact with.