Re: Finding a decent ordering widget ...

Well, I stayed up and hacked around and found a short JQuery option in the right direction:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
  $(function() {
    $("#sortable").sortable({cancel: false});
    $("#sortable").disableSelection();
  });
</script>

<div id="sortable">
      <div><button type="button">Item 1</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 2</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 3</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 4</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 5</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 6</button></div>
      <div><button type="button">Item 7</button></div>
</div>

Demo here:  https://jsfiddle.net/pLu54k47/29/

But I do remain curious if there's a Django widget implementation for that kind of a list too. Or in fact any other elegant easily used form of such a sortable list. Don't hesitate to share your experience if you have any.

Also I'd like to tidy this sample up a bit if I can to produce a self contained widget with only the to Jquery library dependencies perhaps I guess. Part of me wonders if there isn't or shouldn't be, or if I should try and start, a Django widget library with Django Widgets like this for reuse. Just musing.

Regards,

Bernd.


On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:54:35 UTC+11, Bernd Wechner wrote:

Hmmm, my next problem.

I envisage a widget which is kind of like a HTML textarea, but basically each line would hold the name of a field say, and I'd like a user to be able to order the lines, not change the text. Basically click anbd drag lines up and down to reposition them.

I've poked around for HTML widgets for a bit now and find my main handicap is I'm not even sure how to describe this in terse search terms.

I know I've seen such widgets in practice - I didn't invent the idea ;-) - but have till now never needed one and suddenly I'm left wondering if there is one out there somewhere, and/or how I'd go about finding one. No real desire to try and build one with javascript right now, not least given I'm confident it exists already and I just don't know what it's called, how to describe it well or find it and well, DRY, I don't like spending my time recreating widgets that exist already. Not a priority.

Does anyone here have any experience? Places tom look, terms to use in searching for one?

Regards,

Bernd.

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