[pat]

twosix Drag & Drop ohfive

Right - I've started work on a simple new portfolio, idea being that i stick all my work up and people can drag and drop it, using some javascript very kindly supplied by stickman.

All the images are in divs basically. Now i'm trying to add textual content, and i'm doing it the same, sticking the text in divs and i've positioned those divs to the right of the first few images. Thing is, when i put the text divs on top of the image divs, all the images go flying down to below the last bit of text. Any ideas?

I know my css is probably a hash up but that can be sorted later.

Cheers, Pat

[d*d]

appreciate that it's very clever to create something like that in javascript, but why not use flash?

[pat]

cos it's easier for me to use js, i know absolutely nothing about flash!

[Dusteh]

Its not bringing ones I select to the front, which is a bit of a pain.

Also it seems to be scrwing up some of the selections, my mouse gets 'stuck' on one and I can't select another behind it... apart from the glitches its a nice idea.

[steveb]

Totally fucked. Do something else.

Yet another attempt at trying to re-invent the web without the re-education course first.

Dusteh, you forgot to scroll across to the right first. Duh!

[herkalees]

That drag & drop stuff is only cool when it's useful. There isn't anything gained by using it in the way you have.

[pat]

yeah i wasn't asking for crit on my half built website, i was asking for help about a specific problem. I'll put it in showcase if i want c&c. Any ideas on the specific problem detailed in my first post?

[Alexanda]

pat's seen his arse

[stickmus]

Not sure what it's supposed to look like to even start to know what's gone wrong...

[cowandmonkey]

potential of that working well with ajax

[twentysixtwelve]

I personally would flash it too. If you`re that confident with javascript, flash actionscript will make sense.

Many many tutorials out there...

drag and drop flash tutorial - Google Search

Video tut : Drag And Drop Flash Actionscript

[iblastoff]

why would anyone even want to drag and drop your portfolio items around the screen??? and i have no idea what you're after either.

[freelancr]

Originally Posted by cowandmonkey

potential of that working well with ajax

Do you even understand what you just said, because I sure as hell don't. Saying "use AJAX" without saying what you want to actually acheive is pointless. I might aswell say "That would work well with PHP"... but how? AJAX isn't just a buzz word to be dropped randomly into conversation.

Originally Posted by iblastoff

why would anyone even want to drag and drop your porfolio items around the screen??? and i have no idea what you're after either.

Agreed, scrap it, it is pointless. Especially annoying when it gets stuck on one div and won't let you drag others, not to mention things being hidden behind other divs. Also if you have never made anything in flash before, don't bother trying to do this in flash, the end result will be the same. Dragging and dropping stuff isn't good for much. I have seen shopping carts, and social networking sites, make use of it. But essentially it isn't really that useful.

Originally Posted by pat

All the images are in divs basically. Now i'm trying to add textual content, and i'm doing it the same, sticking the text in divs and i've positioned those divs to the right of the first few images. Thing is, when i put the text divs on top of the image divs, all the images go flying down to below the last bit of text. Any ideas?

Sounds like a block level element is trying to clear the last float, is everything floated?

[carlocodamus]

hey have you tried using float? maybe float will work.