Scott Blaine » jquery http://scottblaine.com Omaha web developer Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Unable to drag images with jQuery on IE? I found a fix. http://scottblaine.com/unable-to-drag-images-with-jquery-on-ie-i-found-a-fix http://scottblaine.com/unable-to-drag-images-with-jquery-on-ie-i-found-a-fix#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:37:36 +0000 Scott http://scottblaine.com/?p=468 I’ve been working on an app where you drag div’s from one location to another (using jQuery for draggable/droppable). Inside of said div is some text and an image. I was running into a big problem with IE (Internet Explorer): when clicking on the image to try and drag the div it would not work. It might as well have not been draggable at all. And dragging using the text in the div caused IE to start trying to select text (but at least it would drag). Not optimal behavior.

It took me a long time to find an answer on Google, but here it is:

Don’t use the “distance” and “delay” options for draggables; they are currently incompatible with IE. As soon as I removed them the draggable functionality worked perfectly. I’m hopeful that the jQuery team will fix this in future versions, but for now, just don’t use those options.

This was with jQuery 1.5.1, jQuery UI 1.8.11 and IE8. Hopefully I’ve loaded this post with enough search terms that others will find it quickly before beating their heads against the wall :)

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