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title: "How do you implement drag-and-drop functionality using jQuery?"  
description: "How do you implement drag-and-drop functionality using jQuery?"  
author: "Revati S Misra"  
published: 2023-05-09  
updated: 2023-05-11  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158247/how-do-you-implement-drag-and-drop-functionality-using-jquery  
category: "jquery"  
tags: ["jquery", "jquery ui", "jquery animate"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How do you implement drag-and-drop functionality using jQuery?

How do you implement drag-and-[drop](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159392/how-to-fetch-the-value-of-the-selected-options-in-drop-down-in-php) [functionality](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/136/using-watermark-functionality-in-textbox-by-jquery) using jQuery?

## Replies

### Reply by Aryan Kumar

jQuery provides a number of methods and events to implement drag-and-drop functionality. Here's a simple example of how to implement drag-and-drop using jQuery:

```javascript
$(document).ready(function() {
 // Make the element draggable
 $('#drag-element').draggable({
   revert: true  // Snap back to original position when released
 });

 // Make the drop area accept the draggable element
 $('#drop-area').droppable({
   drop: function(event, ui) {
     // Handle the drop event here
     $(this).append(ui.draggable);
   }
 });
});
```

In this example, the **draggable()** method is used to make an element draggable. The **droppable()** method is used to specify a drop area and handle the drop event.

The **draggable()** method accepts various options, such as **revert** (which determines whether the element should snap back to its original position when released) and **helper** (which specifies the helper element that should be dragged).

The **droppable()** method accepts various options, such as **accept** (which specifies the draggable elements that are accepted by the drop area), **activeClass** (which specifies the CSS class to be applied to the drop area when a draggable element is hovering over it), and **hoverClass** (which specifies the CSS class to be applied to the draggable element when it is hovering over the drop area).

The **drop** event is fired when a draggable element is dropped onto the drop area. The event handler receives two parameters: **event** (the jQuery event object) and **ui** (an object that contains information about the draggable element, such as its position and the helper element).

In the example code, the **append()** method is used to move the draggable element to the drop area when it is dropped. You can customize this behavior to suit your needs.


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