JQuery Draggable and Resizeable over IFrames (Solution)

Question

I recently ran into some troubles using JQuery Draggable and Resizable plugins. Looking for solutions, i found some very fragmented code in many different places and finally fil

Answer 1

There are a number of ways to achieve this, all depending on your needs. I found resizing/dragging many windows slows the UI down a lot, and as such I ended up hiding the iframes on start of resize/Drag with a border to help navigation.

There are some jquery plugins that achieve part of this functionality, but many struggle with iframes.

The bring to front can also be improved at points and may not work in all situations.