Making a component draggable
Any component can be enhanced with the draggable behavior. To enable the draggable functionality on any PrimeFaces component, we always need a component called draggable.
In this recipe, we will see how to make a component draggable and learn some basic features of draggable. To demonstrate these features, we will make several p:panel components draggable.
How to do it…
A component can be made draggable by using p:draggable. The value of the for attribute specifies a search expression for the draggable target. In our case, it matches the ID of p:panel.
Tip
Chapter 1, Getting Started with PrimeFaces, provides more details on search expressions.
If the for attribute is omitted, the parent component will be selected as a draggable ...
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