jQuery How to fire the drag event while mouse is still down

Question

Ok I\'ve been playing around with this for hours now and still no dice. I\'m creating an interface allowing you to drag and drop an icon(a div with an image inside). I\'m us

Answer 1

ok. after reading your comments i think i understand what you are trying to do, however i dont think there is a "start drag" method which we can use in jquery.

but how about this, instead of binding a mousedown event on div A which creates the new div B and then trying to drag div B, why not remove the mousedown event altogether and replace it with a draggable event, and fire off some code at the beginning of the drag event.

for example:

$(".selector").draggable({
  appendTo:'body',
  addClasses:'',
  scroll:false,
  start:function(){
    //your code here
    //eg:
    $(this).html('something else');
  }
});

the addClasses bit can change the appearance of your div, and the start event can fire off some code to alter div A (which you are now dragging) to appear like your intended div B.

EDIT: the scroll:false bit should get around the problems you are having with the "overflow:auto" parent div.

its a bit of a work around, but should give you the functionality you are after (assuming i understand you correctly this time!! :)