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Sencerd

Sortables does not work in IE (1.2.1 Release) LIVE DEMO BROKEN

Reported by Sencerd | August 20th, 2008 @ 11:06 AM | in 1.3.0

Look at the sortables demos in Firefox, they work as expected, now look at them in IE6/7, there are so many issues, the bullet point disappears, the numbers get mixed up, all sorts.

So I have a sortable list of divs, with cloning and opacity, in firefox it works fine, in IE the cloned element does not stay in the correct position under the mouse, and when dragging upwards it always snaps to the top, instead of where the mouse is.

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  • Scott

    Scott August 25th, 2008 @ 08:53 AM

    • → Tag changed from “” to “1.2release blocker critical defect ie sortables”
    • → Title changed from “Sortables does not work in IE” to “Sortables does not work in IE (1.2 Release)”

    Sortables are completely broken in IE7. My biggest problem is you can drag down, but you can't drag up.

    How did this get released if the demo doesn't even work? http://demos.mootools.net/Sortables

  • Scott

    Scott August 25th, 2008 @ 08:53 AM

    • → Assigned user changed from “Valerio” to “Tom Occhino”
  • Sencerd

    Sencerd November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:25 AM

    • → Tag changed from “1.2release blocker critical defect ie sortables” to “defect ie sortables”

    Why isn't this being addressed for 1.2.2, surely if it's important enough to have a demo then it's important enough to work cross browser?

  • Sencerd

    Sencerd November 3rd, 2008 @ 11:44 AM

    After a bit of playing I worked out the problem is caused by having position:relative on the lists parent element, removing that attribute makes the sortable function as expected, this is a problem I have encountered in other parts of mootools, getPosition seems to break when you are using position:relative in IE

  • Scott

    Scott November 5th, 2008 @ 06:05 PM

    • → Tag changed from “defect ie sortables” to “12 121 bug critical defect ie ie6 sortables”
    • → Title changed from “Sortables does not work in IE (1.2 Release)” to “Sortables does not work in IE (1.2.1 Release) LIVE DEMO BROKEN”

    Since it isn't being addressed in 1.2.2, maybe you should change the following text on the demo page: http://demos.mootools.net/Sortables

    Back in the 90s you sorted items in a list with arrows... and it worked. In the 00's you could drag items and pretend it works.

  • Daniel Steigerwald

    Daniel Steigerwald November 28th, 2008 @ 05:56 AM

    Hi, that sortables bug was caused by wrong positioning in mootools. I have well tested fix, so wait to 1.2.2 version.

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