I want to create draggable and sortable effect like that of http://www.bbc.co.uk/.
For that I used Jquery UI and got kinda same effect.
But with complications, if you see the effect in BBC's website, when you pick a division there appears a shadow with a dotted line below it and the shifting between the boxes is pretty much different that I get.
When using the Jquery UI, I floated the <li> to appear them on side by side to each other, but when I am shifting the boxes, the shifting box gets inserted in between the boxes.
Here is my coding so far. But it is not that of BBC
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link type="text/css" href="themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="js/lib/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="js/lib/ui.js"></script>
<script src="js/lib/widget.js"></script>
<script src="js/lib/utilities/mouse.js"></script>
<script src="js/lib/interactions/draggable.js"></script>
<script src="js/lib/interactions/sortable.js"></script>
<style>
* { margin:0;padding:0; }
body {
background:url(themes/default/images/background.gif);
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
#wrapper {
width:980px;
margin: 0 auto;
border:1px #F00 solid;
}
.sublayout {
width:300px;
height:300px;
background:#aeadad;
border:1px #2495f5 solid;
float:left;
margin:1em;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 20px black;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 20px black;
box-shadow: 0 0 20px black;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#sortable").sortable({
revert: true
});
$("#draggable").draggable({
connectToSortable: '#sortable',
helper: 'clone',
revert: 'invalid'
});
$("ul, li").disableSelection();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<ul id="sortable">
<li class="ui-state-default sublayout">Item 1</li>
<li class="ui-state-default sublayout">Item 2</li>
<li class="ui-state-default sublayout">Item 3</li>
<li class="ui-state-default sublayout">Item 4</li>
<li class="ui-state-default sublayout">Item 5</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>