Drag and Drop in Firefox 3.5. Drag Operations. The following describes the steps that occur during a drag and drop operation.
The Draggable Attribute Within a web page, there are certain cases where a default drag behavior is used. These include text selections, images, and links. When an image or link is dragged, the URL of the image or link is set as the drag data, and a drag begins. For other elements, they must be part of a selection in order for a default drag to occur. Cross Browser HTML5 Drag and Drop. Updates: May 10, 2013: This article has been translated into Serbo-Croatian language by Anja Skrba from Webhostinggeeks.com.Feb 3, 2009: A bug in Webkit seems to be the culprit in the permissions form example below not working correctly in Safari 4.
The code has been updated to work around this bug and the article below has been updated. Thanks to russbuelt for pointing this out.Feb 3, 2009: Apparently, an example made by Apple which I reported not working in Safari does work in Safari 4.0.4 for Mac OS X. Thanks for Scott Straker for this information. Image Credit: Flickr user svartling.
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