DragEvent: dataTransfer property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The DragEvent.dataTransfer read-only property holds the drag operation's data (as a DataTransfer object).

Value

A DataTransfer object which contains the drag event's data.

The property can be null when the event is created using the constructor. It is never null when dispatched by the browser.

Examples

This example illustrates accessing the drag and drop data within the dragend event handler.

js
function processData(d) {
  // Process the data …
}

dragTarget.addEventListener(
  "dragend",
  (ev) => {
    // Call the drag and drop data processor
    if (ev.dataTransfer !== null) processData(ev.dataTransfer);
  },
  false,
);

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-dragevent-datatransfer-dev

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
dataTransfer

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Full support
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