We’re creating a YouTube series that walks through the process of building a WordCamp Speaker Finder app using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. The video series is free to watch, and does not require advanced programming know-how or specialized knowledge of any framework. We have broken the series down into small, digestible episodes. We plan […]
How To Style Draggable Elements To Indicate Draggability
Last time, we saw how quickly we can get a minimal working setup in place with draggable elements and jQuery UI. Here, we’ll talk about how to style our draggable elements. In particular, we want to let users know that the draggable Things are actually draggable, using only visual cues. Here is what our styled […]
Draggable Elements With jQuery UI
I set out to find the bare minimum requirements for making draggable elements with jQuery UI. It turns out the minimum is actually very little! The above code gives us the following: So did it work? Yes, it did! Don’t believe me? Go ahead and drag Things 1, 2, and 3 around above. You probably […]