How can I make a jQuery UI draggable div draggable for touchscreen

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I have a jQuery UI draggable   that works in Firefox and Chrome  The user interface concept is basically click to create a  post-it  type item   Basically  I click or tap on div everything  100  high and wide  that listens for clicks  and an input textarea displays  You add text  and then when you re done it saves it  You can drag this element around  That is working on normal browsers  but on an iPad I can test with I can t drag the items around  If I touch to select  it then dims slightly   I can t then drag it  It won t drag left or right at all  I can drag up or down  but I m not dragging the individual div  I m dragging the whole webpage   So here s the code I use to capture clicks       everything   bind  click   function e       var elem   document createElement  DIV        STATE top   e pageY      STATE left   e pageX      var e     elem  css           top  STATE top          left  STATE left        html   lt textarea gt  lt  textarea gt         addClass  instance        bind  click   function event           return false                this  append e         And here s the code I use to  save  the note and turn the input div into just a display div      textarea   live  mouseleave   function        var val   jQuery trim   this  val         STATE content   val      if  val                    this  parent   remove          else           var div      this  parent            div text val  css               height   30px                      STATE height   30          if   div width       div 0  clientWidth    div height        div 0  clientHeight                 while  div width       div 0  clientWidth    div height        div 0  clientHeight                    var h   div height     10                  STATE height   h                  div css                       height   h     px                             element just got scrollbars                                 STATE guid   uniqueID           div addClass  savedNote   attr  id   STATE guid  draggable               stop  function                     var offset     this  offset                    STATE guid     this  attr  id                    STATE top   offset top                  STATE left   offset left                  STATE content     this  text                    STATE height     this  height                    STATE save                                      STATE save              this  remove                And I have this code when I load the page for saved notes       savedNote   draggable       stop  function             STATE guid     this  attr  id            var offset     this  offset            STATE top   offset top          STATE left   offset left          STATE content     this  text            STATE height     this  height            STATE save                My STATE object handles saving the notes   Onload  this is the whole html body    lt body gt        lt div id  everything  gt  lt  div gt    lt div class  instance savedNote  id  iddd1b0969-c634-8876-75a9-b274ff87186b  style  top 134px left 715px height 30px   gt Whatever dude lt  div gt    lt div class  instance savedNote  id  id8a129f06-7d0c-3cb3-9212-0f38a8445700  style  top 131px left 347px height 30px   gt Appointment 11 45am lt  div gt    lt div class  instance savedNote  id  ide92e3d13-afe8-79d7-bc03-818d4c7a471f  style  top 144px left 65px height 80px   gt What do you think of a board where you can add writing as much as possible  lt  div gt    lt div class  instance savedNote  id  idef7fe420-4c19-cfec-36b6-272f1e9b5df5  style  top 301px left 534px height 30px   gt This was submitted lt  div gt    lt div class  instance savedNote  id  id93b3b56f-5e23-1bd1-ddc1-9be41f1efb44  style  top 390px left 217px height 30px   gt Hello world from iPad  lt  div gt     lt  body gt    So  my question is really  how can I make this work better on iPad    I m not set on jQuery UI  I m wondering if this is something I m doing wrong with jQuery UI  or jQuery  or whether there may be better frameworks for doing cross-platform backward compatible draggable   elements that will work for touchscreen UIs   More general comments about how to write UI components like this would be welcome as well   Thanks     UPDATE  I was able to simply chain this onto my jQuery UI draggable   call and get the correct draggability on iPad    touch       animate  false      sticky  false      dragx  true      dragy  true      rotate  false      resort  true      scale  false       The jQuery Touch plugin did the trick

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You can try using jquery pep js      jquery pep js is a lightweight jQuery plugin which turns any DOM   element into a draggable object  It works across mostly all browsers    from old to new  from touch to click  I built it to serve a need in   which jQuery UI   s draggable was not fulfilling  since it didn   t work   on touch devices  without some hackery     Website  GitHub link

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Caution  This answer was written in 2010 and technology moves fast  For a more recent solution  see  ctrl-alt-dileep s answer below     Depending on your needs  you may wish to try the jQuery touch plugin  you can try an example here  It works fine to drag on my iPhone  whereas jQuery UI Draggable doesn t   Alternatively  you can try this plugin  though that might require you to actually write your own draggable function   As a sidenote  Believe it or not  we re hearing increasing buzz about how touch devices such as the iPad and iPhone is causing problems both for websites using  hover onmouseover functions and draggable content   If you re interested in the underlying solution for this  it s to use three new JavaScript events  ontouchstart  ontouchmove and ontouchend  Apple actually has written an article about their use  which you can find here  A simplified example can be found here  These events are used in both of the plugins I linked to

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jQuery ui 1 9 is going to take care of this for you   Heres a demo of the pre   https   dl dropbox com u 3872624 lab touch index html  Just grab the jquery mouse ui js out  stick it under the jQuery ui file you re loading  and that s all you should have to do   Works for sortable as well   This code is working great for me  but if your getting errors  an updated version of jquery mouse ui js can be found here   Jquery-ui sortable doesn  39 t work on touch devices based on Android or IOS

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This project should be helpful - maps touch events to click events in a way that allows jQuery UI to work on iPad and iPhone without any changes  Just add the JS to any existing project   http   code google com p jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone

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I was struggling with a similar problem yesterday  I already had a  working  solution using jQuery UI s draggable together with jQuery Touch Punch  which are mentioned in other answers  However  using this method was causing weird bugs in some Android devices for me  and therefore I decided to write a small jQuery plugin that can make HTML elements draggable by using touch events instead of using a method that emulates fake mouse events   The result of this is jQuery Draggable Touch which is a simple jQuery plugin for making elements draggable  that has touch devices as it s main target by using touch events  like touchstart  touchmove  touchend  etc    It still has a fallback that uses mouse events if the browser device doesn t support touch events

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This project on github may be your solution  https   github com furf jquery-ui-touch-punch

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After wasting many hours  I came across this   jquery-ui-touch-punch  It translates tap events as click events   Remember to load the script after jquery   I got this working on the iPad and iPhone      movable   draggable  containment   parent

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