Hour 16. Working with HTML5 Drag-and-Drop Functionality

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Why drag and drop is important for web applications

• How to use drag and drop in most modern browsers

• How to use the new events and attributes for drag and drop

• The six steps to creating a drag-and-drop interface

HTML5 drag and drop provides you with a standardized method of creating drag-and-drop functionality in your web applications. This makes your applications function even more like a native desktop application.

In this hour you will learn the HTML5 events and attributes that were added to allow drag and drop to function. You’ll also learn the steps for how to implement drag and drop using HTML5.

If you have implemented drag and drop on your ...

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