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jQuery's draggable functionality doesn't seem to work on tables (in FF3 or Safari). It's kind of difficult to envision how this would work, so it's not really surprising that it doesn't.
<html>
<style type='text/css'>
div.table { display: table; }
div.row { display: table-row; }
div.cell { display: table-cell; }
</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/tags/ui/latest/ui/ui.core.js"></script>
<script src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/tags/ui/latest/ui/ui.draggable.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".row").draggable();
});
</script>
<body>
<div class='table'>
<div class='row'>
<div class='cell'>Foo</div>
<div class='cell'>Bar</div>
</div>
<div class='row'>
<div class='cell'>Spam</div>
<div class='cell'>Eggs</div>
</div>
</div>
<table>
<tr class'row'><td>Foo</td><td>Bar</td></tr>
<tr class='row'><td>Spam</td><td>Eggs</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I'm was wondering a) if there's any specific reason why this doesn't work (from a w3c/HTML spec perspective) and b) what the right way to go about getting draggable table rows is.
I like real tables because of the border collapsing and row height algorithm -- any alternative that can do those things would work fine.