ROR draggable_element with ghosting property in IE
Some days ago I faced a problem of drag and drop functionality in developing Scrumpad . We had to give a way to drag a DIV element from one block and drop to another to make user experience more interactive. It’s really an easy task as we have many rich javascript libraries. Besides ROR provide a rich javascript helper. However we enabled the DIV s to be draggable by the following way: <%= draggable_element ‘element_[id]’, :revert=>true, :ghosting => true -%> Here ‘element_[id]’ refers to some DIV s having id like ‘element_1’, ‘element_2’ and so on... When equipped with everything I checked in firefox and found everything working well. But in IE this code created a huge mess. After digging a bit more I found the problem in the ghosting property in draggable_element function. Actually this property helps to create a replica of the dragging element and move that DIV anywhere else. But IE showed so devotion on it that it was creating a new replica on each movement of ...