DragEvent
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.
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The DragEvent interface is a DOM event that represents a drag and drop interaction. The user initiates a drag by placing a pointer device (such as a mouse) on the touch surface and then dragging the pointer to a new location (such as another DOM element). Applications are free to interpret a drag and drop interaction in an application-specific way.
This interface inherits properties from MouseEvent and Event.
Instance properties
DragEvent.dataTransferRead only-
The data that is transferred during a drag and drop interaction.
Constructors
Although this interface has a constructor, it is not possible to create a useful DataTransfer object from script, since DataTransfer objects have a processing and security model that is coordinated by the browser during drag-and-drops.
DragEvent()-
Creates a synthetic and untrusted DragEvent.
Event types
drag-
This event is fired when an element or text selection is being dragged.
dragend-
This event is fired when a drag operation is being ended (by releasing a mouse button or hitting the escape key).
dragenter-
This event is fired when a dragged element or text selection enters a valid drop target.
dragleave-
This event is fired when a dragged element or text selection leaves a valid drop target.
dragover-
This event is fired continuously when an element or text selection is being dragged and the mouse pointer is over a valid drop target (every 50 ms WHEN mouse is not moving ELSE much faster between 5 ms (slow movement) and 1ms (fast movement) approximately. This firing pattern is different than
mouseover). dragstart-
This event is fired when the user starts dragging an element or text selection.
drop-
This event is fired when an element or text selection is dropped on a valid drop target.
Example
An Example of each property, constructor, event type and global event handlers is included in their respective reference page.
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # the-dragevent-interface |