onBeforeDrop

fires before a dragged element is released over the droppable area

boolean onBeforeDrop(object context,Event native_event);
contextobjectthe drag-n-drop context
native_eventEventan HTML event object
booleanreturning false will prevent further drag-and-drop processing

Example

$$("editor").attachEvent("onBeforeDrop", function(context, native_event){
    //... some code here ... 
    // return false to block operation
    return true;
});

Details

The drag-and-drop context can have the following properties:

  • from - the source object
  • to - the target object
  • source - the ID of the dragged item
  • target - the ID of the drop target, null for drop on empty space
  • start - the ID from which drag-n-drop was started.
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