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Drag-and-Drop with jQuery: Your Essential Guide

17 February 2011 / 128 Comments

Drag-and-Drop with jQuery: Your Essential Guide

Dragging and dropping can be a very intuitive way for users to interact with your site or web app. People often use drag-and-drop for things like:

  • Moving email messages into folders
  • Reordering lists of items
  • Moving objects in games around, such as cards and puzzle pieces

Drag-and-drop with JavaScript used to be very hard to do — in fact, getting a decent cross-browser version working was next to impossible. However, with modern browsers and a smattering of jQuery, drag-and-drop is now a piece of cake!

In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how to create drag-and-drop interfaces with jQuery, and we’ll finish with a complete drag-and-drop example: a simple number cards game for kids.

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Working with Photoshop’s Quick Mask Mode

24 October 2001 / 2 Comments

Photoshop’s Quick Mask mode is a really versatile way to select things. Instead of creating marquees as you do with the other tools, you can “paint” the selection using any of Photoshop’s painting tools. You can even use the other selection tools on the Quick Mask, as if it was a regular image. This makes the Quick Mask mode a very powerful feature of Photoshop.

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