I would recommend the following: 1. On element.mousedown, bind document.mousemove and document.mouseup. 2. On document.mouseup, unbind mousemove and mouseup. 3. Don't worry about sending the drag events (mousemove) to the element that's actually going to be moving, just handle the events at the document level and move the element accordingly.
This is known as event delegation. Especially because your original element isn't going to move, your safest element is document, to which all others will bubble up. You might want to take a look at the mouse plugin inside jQuery UI's core (ui.core.js). This is how it's designed. For examples of use, see any of jQuery UI's draggable, slider, selectable, sortable. After mousedown (on the target element), everything else is on the document. - Richard Richard D. Worth http://rdworth.org/ On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM, JohnC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I (and if so, how) drag an element without actually mouse-downing > and -moving on the element I want to move? > > For reasons I will happily explain, the user can't actually click on > the object I want them to drag. > > So can I get them to click on something else and then have that pass > the dragging info to the real draggable element? > > (Just to be clear, the proxy mustn't move - I just want the events of > mousedown/drag to be forwarded to the real draggable element). > > Many thanks. > > Regards > > John >
