Resizable, draggable object in jquery. Possible?

Pabuc picture Pabuc · Feb 5, 2011 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I want to have an object which is both resizable and draggable. I'll need:

  • X
  • Y
  • Size

of the object.

Is this possible?

There is an example on http://www.jsfiddle.net/davidThomas/DGbT3/1/ which gets the x and y of the draggable object. How can I also make it resizable?

Thanks


It's worth adding that this question is related to, and built on, this previous question: How to get the position of a draggable object?

Answer

gearsdigital picture gearsdigital · Feb 5, 2011

Sure it is... jQuery UI is good for complex behaviors like drag and drop, resizing, selection and sorting.

With jQuery UI you can:

  • Drag
  • Drop
  • Resize
  • Sort

And you can everything chain together.

It is important for the resize feature that you include the jquery-ui.css file.

JSFIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/uQWRk/

Here is the full code for archive:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css"/>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    $(document).ready(function() {

        $('#dragThis').resizable({
            stop: function(event, ui) {
                var w = $(this).width();
                var h = $(this).height();
                console.log('StopEvent fired')
                console.log('Width:'+w);
                console.log('Height:'+h)    
            }
        }).draggable(
            {
                containment: $('body'),
                drag: function(){
                    var offset = $(this).offset();
                    var xPos = offset.left;
                    var yPos = offset.top;
                    $('#posX').text('x: ' + xPos);
                    $('#posY').text('y: ' + yPos);
                },
                stop: function(){
                    var finalOffset = $(this).offset();
                    var finalxPos = finalOffset.left;
                    var finalyPos = finalOffset.top;

            $('#finalX').text('Final X: ' + finalxPos);
            $('#finalY').text('Final X: ' + finalyPos);
                }
            });

        $('#dropHere').droppable(
            {
                accept: '#dragThis',
                over : function(){
                    $(this).animate({'border-width' : '5px',
                                     'border-color' : '#0f0'
                                    }, 500);
                    $('#dragThis').draggable('option','containment',$(this));
                }
            });
    });

</script>   
<style type="text/css">
    #dragThis {
        width: 6em;
        height: 6em;
        padding: 0.5em;
        border: 3px solid #ccc;
        border-radius: 0 1em 1em 1em;
        background-color: #fff;
        background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    }

    #dropHere {
        width: 12em;
        height: 12em;
        padding: 0.5em;
        border: 3px solid #f90;
        border-radius: 1em;
        margin: 0 auto;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="dragThis">
<ul>
    <li id="posX"></li>
    <li id="posY"></li>
    <li id="finalX"></li>
    <li id="finalY"></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="dropHere"></div>
</body>
</html>

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