Drag and drop without JQuery UI

Question

I searched a lot to find a tutorial for drag & drop with jQuery alone (without UI), but due to the popularity of JQuery UI, all drag and drop features are based on JQuer

Answer 1

There are several plugins that you may use take a look at the following

http://wayfarerweb.com/jquery/plugins/animadrag/

http://threedubmedia.com/code/event/drag/demo/

it still jquery but no UI

Answer 2

I found this one very useful: http://draggabilly.desandro.com/

Answer 3

http://thezillion.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/javascript-draggable-2-no-jquery

See this. It's core JS and easy to implement.

Answer 4

Came across the same problem, and 33.4 kilobytes for the minified jqueryUI with only draggable and droppable is too large for the limited functionality I needed. The approach below isn't working code - it's just a simple structure to visualize what needs to happen.

$('.draggable').on{
  mousemove : function(){
    var mouseposition = { // this also needs to account for onclick offset of pointer vis-a-vis element
        x : pageX,
        y : pageY 
    };
    $(this).css({
      top : mouseposition.y,
      left : mouseposition.y
    });
  if( // this statement is kinda bogus, idea is to perform a collision detection via coordinate comparison
    $('.draggable').offset().top < $(.droppable').offset().top 
    &&
    $('.draggable').offset().left < $(.droppable').offset().left
  ) {
      alert('the item has been dropped');
  }
  }
});

Answer 5

I understand this is an old post, but i was also interested in doing this without Jquery UI. I checked the links above, but i found this to be the best. It's only 8kb minified (UI sortable ~30, i've read), and is independent of any mammoth JQuery library (although those CAN make our lives easier sometimes).

Answer 6

Answer based on: https://www.sanwebe.com/2014/10/draggable-element-with-jquery-no-jquery-ui

for sorting perhaps see: http://johnny.github.io/jquery-sortable/

var draggable = $('#dragit'); //element 

draggable.on('mousedown', function(e){
	var dr = $(this).addClass("drag").css("cursor","move");
	height = dr.outerHeight();
	width = dr.outerWidth();
	ypos = dr.offset().top + height - e.pageY,
	xpos = dr.offset().left + width - e.pageX;
	$(document.body).on('mousemove', function(e){
		var itop = e.pageY + ypos - height;
		var ileft = e.pageX + xpos - width;
		if(dr.hasClass("drag")){
			dr.offset({top: itop,left: ileft});
		}
	}).on('mouseup', function(e){
			dr.removeClass("drag");
	});
});

#dragit
  {
    background: red;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    cursor: move;
    position: relative;
  }

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="dragit">Drag me</div>

Constrain movement

var draggable = $('#dragit-contained'); //element 

draggable.on('mousedown', function(e){
	var dr = $(this).addClass("drag").css("cursor","move");
	height = dr.outerHeight();
	width = dr.outerWidth();
	max_left = dr.parent().offset().left + dr.parent().width() - dr.width();
	max_top = dr.parent().offset().top + dr.parent().height() - dr.height();
	min_left = dr.parent().offset().left;
	min_top = dr.parent().offset().top;

	ypos = dr.offset().top + height - e.pageY,
	xpos = dr.offset().left + width - e.pageX;
	$(document.body).on('mousemove', function(e){
		var itop = e.pageY + ypos - height;
		var ileft = e.pageX + xpos - width;
		
		if(dr.hasClass("drag")){
			if(itop <= min_top ) { itop = min_top; }
			if(ileft <= min_left ) { ileft = min_left; }
			if(itop >= max_top ) { itop = max_top; }
			if(ileft >= max_left ) { ileft = max_left; }
			dr.offset({ top: itop,left: ileft});
		}
	}).on('mouseup', function(e){
			dr.removeClass("drag");
	});
});

.draggable-area
  {
    background: grey;
    width: 320px;
    height: 240px;
  }
#dragit-contained
  {
    background: red;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    cursor: move;
    position: relative;
  }

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="draggable-area">
	<div id="dragit-contained">Drag me</div>
</div>