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jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook
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jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook

by Leon Revill
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
8h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a basic drag-and-drop functionality

It is possible to create interesting and intuitive interfaces by adding drag-and-drop elements to your site. jQuery UI comes with a built-in plugin for drag-and-drop interfaces. This recipe will show you how to create a basic drag-and-drop functionality without the use of any plugins, giving you the freedom and understanding to expand the code.

Getting ready

Create a blank HTML page called recipe-6.html with the recipe-6.css and recipe-6.js files in the same directory as the latest version of the jQuery library.

How to do it…

Carry out the following step-by-step instructions to complete this recipe:

  1. Add the following HTML code to recipe-6.html, creating a basic HTML page with three draggable elements in ...
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