jQuery drag'n'drop multiple elements

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I'm currently developing a web file browser using jquery and php. One of my sub-tasks is to be able to select a couple of files/folders and drop them into another folder.

From my research I see that jquery ui has draggable and droppable which do the work at 80%.
What should be done to be able to select a couple of elements and drop them? Can it be done with the existing draggable/droppable plugins from jquery ui? If not can you recommend any plugins for jquery that can do the work?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '12 at 19:54

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How about http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/11/jquery-ui-multiple-draggable-plugin.html

answered Jan 09 '12 at 19:54

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In the comments there are links to droppable and sortable examples - http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/12/jquery-ui-sortable-drag-multiple-to.html and http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/12/accessing-draggable-elements-from.html – BartekR Jan 09 '12 at 20:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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This is by far the simplest solution that I've found to a multi-item drag and drop. It's by brianpeiris. He created a demo of it here in answer to the stackoverflow question grouping draggable objects with jquery-ui draggable. I just wish that I'd found it before I found all the other solutions.

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answered Jul 31 '13 at 13:37

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