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    copied!<p><strong><h1>Scenario:</h1></strong></p> <p>I'm trying to create a dashboard of sorts which will have widgets of varying sizes. I would like the user to be able to arrange their widgets to their liking.</p> <p>I have been trying to implement jQuery UI's <strong>sortable</strong> interaction, using the <strong><a href="http://jqueryui.com/sortable/#portlets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">portlets</a></strong> example, but I'm having some trouble.</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/JlTWVkw.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><strong><h1>What's Working:</h1></strong></p> <p>I can drag and drop/rearrange containers between columns within the same row.</p> <p><strong><h1>What's NOT Working:</h1></strong> I cannot drag containers between rows.</p> <p><strong><h1>My Question:</h1></strong> How can I enable dragging/dropping between rows <em>and</em> columns?</p> <p><strong><h1>jsFiddle Demo:</h1></strong> <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/SWUTR/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/SWUTR/</a></p> <hr> <p><strong>Relevant HTML:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="column"&gt; &lt;div class="container span2"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="container span2"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="column"&gt; &lt;div class="container span1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="container span2"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="container span1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="column"&gt; &lt;div class="container span4"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Relevant CSS:</strong></p> <pre><code>.column .container { float:left; margin:5px; min-width:100px; height:250px; background:#39F; } .column .container.span1 { width:calc(25% - 10px); background:#6CC; } .column .container.span2 { width:calc(50% - 10px); background:#6F6; } .column .container.span3 { width:calc(75% - 10px); background:#99C; } .column .container.span4 { width:calc(100% - 10px); background:#33C; } </code></pre> <p><strong>Relevant jQuery:</strong></p> <pre><code>$(".column").sortable({ connectWith: ".column" }); $(".column").disableSelection(); </code></pre>
 

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