# jQuery UI Droppable

## Overview

The jQuery UI Droppable plugin makes selected elements droppable (meaning they accept being dropped on by draggables). You can specify which (individually) or which kind of draggables each will accept.

All callbacks receive two arguments: The original browser event and a prepared ui object, view below for a documentation of this object (if you name your second argument 'ui'):

- ui.draggable - current draggable element, a jQuery object.
- ui.helper - current draggable helper, a jQuery object
- ui.position - current position of the draggable helper { top: , left: }
- ui.offset - current absolute position of the draggable helper { top: , left: }

### Dependencies

- UI Core
- UI Draggable

### Example

- Demo
- View Source

Makes the div droppable (a drop target for a draggable).

    $("#draggable").draggable();
        $("#droppable").droppable({
          drop: function() { alert('dropped'); }
        });

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
      <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
      <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
      <style type="text/css">
        #draggable { width: 75px; height: 25px; background: silver; padding: 10px; }
        #droppable { position: absolute; left: 250px; top: 0; width: 125px; height: 75px; background: gray; color: white; padding: 10px; }
      </style>
      <script>
      $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#draggable").draggable();
        $("#droppable").droppable({
          drop: function() { alert('dropped'); }
        });
      });
      </script>
    </head>
    <body style="font-size:62.5%;">

    <div id="droppable">Drop here</div>
    <div id="draggable">Drag me</div>

    </body>
    </html>

## Options

- ### disabled

  Type:
    Boolean
  Default:
    false

  Disables (true) or enables (false) the droppable. Can be set when initialising (first creating) the droppable.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `disabled` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ disabled: true });

  Get or set the `disabled` option, after init.

        //getter
        var disabled = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "disabled" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "disabled", true );

- ### accept

  Type:
    Selector, Function
  Default:
    '*'

  All draggables that match the selector will be accepted. If a function is specified, the function will be called for each draggable on the page (passed as the first argument to the function), to provide a custom filter. The function should return true if the draggable should be accepted.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `accept` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ accept: '.special' });

  Get or set the `accept` option, after init.

        //getter
        var accept = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "accept" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "accept", '.special' );

- ### activeClass

  Type:
    String
  Default:
    false

  If specified, the class will be added to the droppable while an acceptable draggable is being dragged.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `activeClass` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ activeClass: 'ui-state-highlight' });

  Get or set the `activeClass` option, after init.

        //getter
        var activeClass = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "activeClass" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "activeClass", 'ui-state-highlight' );

- ### addClasses

  Type:
    Boolean
  Default:
    true

  If set to false, will prevent the ui-droppable class from being added. This may be desired as a performance optimization when calling .droppable() init on many hundreds of elements.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `addClasses` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ addClasses: false });

  Get or set the `addClasses` option, after init.

        //getter
        var addClasses = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "addClasses" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "addClasses", false );

- ### greedy

  Type:
    Boolean
  Default:
    false

  If true, will prevent event propagation on nested droppables.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `greedy` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ greedy: true });

  Get or set the `greedy` option, after init.

        //getter
        var greedy = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "greedy" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "greedy", true );

- ### hoverClass

  Type:
    String
  Default:
    false

  If specified, the class will be added to the droppable while an acceptable draggable is being hovered.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `hoverClass` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ hoverClass: 'drophover' });

  Get or set the `hoverClass` option, after init.

        //getter
        var hoverClass = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "hoverClass" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "hoverClass", 'drophover' );

- ### scope

  Type:
    String
  Default:
    'default'

  Used to group sets of draggable and droppable items, in addition to droppable's accept option. A draggable with the same scope value as a droppable will be accepted.

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `scope` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ scope: 'tasks' });

  Get or set the `scope` option, after init.

        //getter
        var scope = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "scope" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "scope", 'tasks' );

- ### tolerance

  Type:
    String
  Default:
    'intersect'

  Specifies which mode to use for testing whether a draggable is 'over' a droppable. Possible values: 'fit', 'intersect', 'pointer', 'touch'.

  - fit: draggable overlaps the droppable entirely
  - intersect: draggable overlaps the droppable at least 50%
  - pointer: mouse pointer overlaps the droppable
  - touch: draggable overlaps the droppable any amount

  #### Code examples

  Initialize a droppable with the `tolerance` option specified.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({ tolerance: 'fit' });

  Get or set the `tolerance` option, after init.

        //getter
        var tolerance = $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "tolerance" );
        //setter
        $( ".selector" ).droppable( "option", "tolerance", 'fit' );

## Events

- ### activate

  Type:
    dropactivate

  This event is triggered any time an accepted draggable starts dragging. This can be useful if you want to make the droppable 'light up' when it can be dropped on.

  #### Code examples

  Supply a callback function to handle the `activate` event as an init option.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({
           activate: function(event, ui) { ... }
        });

  Bind to the `activate` event by type: `dropactivate`.

        $( ".selector" ).bind( "dropactivate", function(event, ui) {
          ...
        });

- ### deactivate

  Type:
    dropdeactivate

  This event is triggered any time an accepted draggable stops dragging.

  #### Code examples

  Supply a callback function to handle the `deactivate` event as an init option.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({
           deactivate: function(event, ui) { ... }
        });

  Bind to the `deactivate` event by type: `dropdeactivate`.

        $( ".selector" ).bind( "dropdeactivate", function(event, ui) {
          ...
        });

- ### over

  Type:
    dropover

  This event is triggered as an accepted draggable is dragged 'over' (within the tolerance of) this droppable.

  #### Code examples

  Supply a callback function to handle the `over` event as an init option.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({
           over: function(event, ui) { ... }
        });

  Bind to the `over` event by type: `dropover`.

        $( ".selector" ).bind( "dropover", function(event, ui) {
          ...
        });

- ### out

  Type:
    dropout

  This event is triggered when an accepted draggable is dragged out (within the tolerance of) this droppable.

  #### Code examples

  Supply a callback function to handle the `out` event as an init option.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({
           out: function(event, ui) { ... }
        });

  Bind to the `out` event by type: `dropout`.

        $( ".selector" ).bind( "dropout", function(event, ui) {
          ...
        });

- ### drop

  Type:
    drop

  This event is triggered when an accepted draggable is dropped 'over' (within the tolerance of) this droppable. In the callback, $(this) represents the droppable the draggable is dropped on. ui.draggable represents the draggable.

  #### Code examples

  Supply a callback function to handle the `drop` event as an init option.

        $( ".selector" ).droppable({
           drop: function(event, ui) { ... }
        });

  Bind to the `drop` event by type: `drop`.

        $( ".selector" ).bind( "drop", function(event, ui) {
          ...
        });

## Methods

- ### destroy

  Signature:
    .droppable( "destroy" )

  Remove the droppable functionality completely. This will return the element back to its pre-init state.

- ### disable

  Signature:
    .droppable( "disable" )

  Disable the droppable.

- ### enable

  Signature:
    .droppable( "enable" )

  Enable the droppable.

- ### option

  Signature:
    .droppable( "option" , optionName , [value] )

  Get or set any droppable option. If no value is specified, will act as a getter.

- ### option

  Signature:
    .droppable( "option" , options )

  Set multiple droppable options at once by providing an options object.

- ### widget

  Signature:
    .droppable( "widget" )

  Returns the .ui-droppable element.

## Theming

The jQuery UI Droppable plugin uses the jQuery UI CSS Framework to style its look and feel, including colors and background textures. We recommend using the ThemeRoller tool to create and download custom themes that are easy to build and maintain.

If a deeper level of customization is needed, there are widget-specific classes referenced within the jquery.ui.droppable.css stylesheet that can be modified. These classes are highlighed in bold below.

### Sample markup with jQuery UI CSS Framework classes

<div class="ui-droppable"></div>

Note: This is a sample of markup generated by the droppable plugin, not markup you should use to create a droppable. The only markup needed for that is <div></div>.