Drag and Drop

Drag-and-drop functionality is becoming more and more popular and in the right situations it can be extremely useful. With all the new personal data storage applications that are on the Web, this functionality becomes very useful when a user wants to sort elements that contain data. For example, if you are using an application to create a list of things you have to do, you might create the list only to find out you would like to do certain things before others. This could be a real pain in the butt, or it could easily be solvable if there was a way to drag and drop the items in the order you would like, making them into a sortable list. In this section, we will be creating a sortable list of data. Let’s get started by creating the ...

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