Development (dhtml) Re-orderable list

I'm looking for a way in HTML or dhtml or whatever to make a list of stuff re-orderable by the user dragging and dropping it, like you can on the start menu in XP. I googled for ages, and only found microsoft's bloated solution at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndude/html/dude090699.asp

It has to be able to store the new postion of the moved object in javascript somehow. Anyone have ideas please? It need only be IE, not natscape or moz

Thanks for any help,

ch424

 

you mean re-arrangeable? lol?

im not exactly sure how you can do this with JS, but im pretty sure a Java applet could take care of this.

if your willing to kill the "drag and drop" you could do it with JS by making an array with your elements and create a few buttons like "Move up" or "move Down" and have them change the position of the element in the aray and reload the page.

duno if that helps but its the first thing that comes to mind

 

Is this for a specific browser, other than IE?

I can give some pointers for IE, but I don't know if Netscape, Firefox and others of that ilk give events for Drag and Drop.

Stu

 

You could do this server side, as usualy people will only want to order the table one or twice so shouldn't be too much of a load.

 

Thanks people: I guess I'll just use 731|\|37's "Move Up" and "Move Down" method -- I think I can do that.
Unless you have other ideas hepath...

Thanks again

ch424

 

glad i could help

 

I'll come up with some IE specific code if you're interested.. but only if you want IE specific.


P.S That article on MSDN you quote isn't actually bloatware - it's a full blown exandable treeview. If you just look at the bottom for the drag'n'drop info - thats all you need.

Stu

 

Thanks alot for the offer, but I think I'll just use the moveup/movedown method.

I just meant that when I tried it, it was too big to update unnoticeably quickly, once the asp page generation time comes into play.

thanks again,
ch424