Email conversation
| From | Bryan Harris |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 19 October 2004 19:02 |
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Hello!
First off let me say a big thank you for your site. It's a fantastic
resource! It's helped me a lot while trying to learn javascript and the DOM
and so forth.
On to the problem. I am trying to create a table where the user can input
columns and then reorder them by dragging one cell inbetween two other
cells. I've seen an example of this but it was rather buggy. I searched
through your site and tried to find examples on how to make a draggable cell
but all I could find was for a layer. I know this is pretty indepth stuff
but I was just wondering if you could point in the right direction or maybe
give me a good place to start reading about how to make this happen. I can
get the columns added no problem. Its just the moving and dragging that I
have no idea where to start. Any information would be most appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Bryan
| From | Me |
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| To | Bryan Harris |
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| Subject | Re: A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 19 October 2004 23:44 |
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Bryan, I'm working on it - hope to have the script to do this completed tomorrow.
| From | Bryan Harris |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 19 October 2004 23:45 |
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Whoa! I don't know what to say. Thank you very much. Wow. I can't to see
it. Thank you so much again.
| From | Bryan Harris |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 20 October 2004 21:51 |
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Wow! This is fantastic! Thank you so much! I was trying to do something
similar but I never thought of dynamically creating the divs. That makes a
lot more sense. Do you mind if a change a few things? Only like the styles
of the div and i want to put the text from the td into the div. Those are
things I think I can handle if its ok with you of course. Again thank you
sooo much. Rock on.
Thanks again,
Bryan
| From | Me |
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| To | Bryan Harris |
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| Subject | Re: A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 20 October 2004 9:44 |
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> Wow! This is fantastic! Thank you so much!
Hay, no problem at all. I like a good challenge :D
> Do you mind if a change a few things? Only like the styles of the div
> and i want to put the text from the td into the div.
Absolutely. I wrote the script for you, you can do whatever you want with
it. I deliberately gave it a generic style to allow you to change the
styling to suit your own site.
I will be putting my copy of it online along with all everything else, so
people can always download a copy if they want.
Tarquin
| From | Bryan Harris |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: A bit of help making a draggable table cell |
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| Date | 22 October 2004 21:58 |
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I would recomend one change to the script you put on your website. It
bugged me when I was dragging the cells, that the text would be selected.
So if you include this function:
function deselect () {
if (document.selection)
document.selection.empty();
else if (window.getSelection)
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
}
and then in the mouseismove function I just called the function. It now
doesn't select any of the text which makes it a more complete app. Again
thanks so much.
Bryan