I use the code below to enable touch drag and drop on my website. However, although parts of my code that have the drag and drop feature work on the iPhone, I still cannot scroll or move the page. I can drag and drop, but the usual iPhone features do not work!
I found the snippet below in a few stack overflow answers, so I'm wondering if there is a workaround for this. I want to be able to drag and drop both on the Internet and on mobile devices.
My drag and drop code (just a list):
$(function() {
$(".drag_me ul").sortable();
});
code for touch events:
function touchHandler(event)
{
var touches = event.changedTouches,
first = touches[0],
type = "";
switch(event.type)
{
case "touchstart": type = "mousedown"; break;
case "touchmove": type="mousemove"; break;
case "touchend": type="mouseup"; break;
default: return;
}
var simulatedEvent = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
simulatedEvent.initMouseEvent(type, true, true, window, 1,
first.screenX, first.screenY,
first.clientX, first.clientY, false,
false, false, false, 0, null);
first.target.dispatchEvent(simulatedEvent);
event.preventDefault();
}
function init()
{
document.addEventListener("touchstart", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchmove", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchend", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchcancel", touchHandler, true);
}