#8940 closed bug (wontfix)
Draggable: Incorrect calculations with HTML padding and/or BODY width or margins
| Reported by: | jquery-dev | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 2.0.0 |
| Component: | ui.draggable | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
This bug affects only situations where padding is added to HTML and/or BODY is given a specific width and centered on the page. In these scenarios, containment and positioning are miscalculated. Both relatively- and absolutely-positioned draggable elements are affected.
The miscalculations vary depending on the combination of CSS used. Use this demo page to toggle each CSS setting to see how the draggables are affected...
http://layout.jquery-dev.net/test/draggable_position.html
Note that Draggable does handle BODY borders and padding correctly. It is only HTML padding and BODY margins that throw it a curve.
This demo uses jQuery 1.9.0b1 (to see if it helped), but the Draggable issues existed with previous versions of both jQuery and UI as well.
I found this bug because I have a widget for complex application/page layouts. Instead of adding unnecessary wrapper-divs to 'simulate' the BODY, I applied CSS directly to the HTML and BODY elements. This CSS works fine and is consistent across all browsers, even IE6, so it is perfectly valid CSS.
Everything else on such pages works normally, including my own size and position calculations for absolutely-positioned children of BODY, so the data returned by the browser is accurate and consistent.
This is admittedly a rare bug, but a bug nonetheless. I'll be happy to modify the linked demo page if it would be helpful to trace the problem. Or simply download the page - it is fully self-contained.
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
| Milestone: | 1.10.0 → 2.0.0 |
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| Status: | new → open |
comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 11 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | open → closed |
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
Replying to scott.gonzalez:
jQuery core has documented limitations:
Note: jQuery does not support getting the position coordinates of hidden elements or accounting for borders, margins, or padding set on the body element.
If you'd like to see this fixed, I suggest filing a bug against core.
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Thanks for the info. It seems odd that position() cannot handle ALL valid CSS. I have no problem calculating these scenarios correctly so there is no technical challenge. jQuery's innerHeight() and outerHeight() also handle it correctly. Position() seems to be a weak link!
For the record, the statement on the position() page is inaccurate...
jQuery does not support getting the position coordinates of hidden elements or accounting for borders, margins, or padding set on the body element.
Actually it handles BODY borders and padding correctly. It is BODY width, margins and HTML padding that it can't handle.
I'll wait until I have time to review the code to see why position can't handle this. If it's a simple fix, I'll create a fork and see if they will pull it.
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
It's possible that some of the limitations have been removed over time. My guess is either the solution wasn't apparent or getting it to work consistently required too much code to add to core. If you can get this working in core, I'm sure you'd make a lot of people happy as a fair number of developers seem to be moving away from wrappers and styling html and body directly.
comment:5 follow-up: 7 Changed 11 years ago by
This one intrigued me so I did a little digging. Visually you are correct that there are no issues width setting width, height, margin, padding, or border on the body in any browsers back to IE6. There are some issues with setting widths and margins on <html> in IE6 and 7, but not with padding as you had stated.
So as for why your demo isn't working it looks like at least part of the issue is scrollHeight and scrollWidth from core are incorrect - http://jsfiddle.net/QdKBn/. I want to do a bit more digging before filing anything though.
comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by
I updated your fiddle with inner/outer-width/height and offset methods, and added more complexity to the CSS for both HTML and BODY. In Chrome, ALL these methods give perfectly accurate results. It seems like the necessary methods are available internally for position() to use, so it's odd that it is wrong while all other dimensional methods are correct (for modern browsers at least). Perhaps all it needs is some logic tweaking to fix the issue?
Replying to tj.vantoll:
This one intrigued me so I did a little digging... it looks like at least part of the issue is
scrollHeightandscrollWidthfrom core are incorrect - http://jsfiddle.net/QdKBn/. I want to do a bit more digging before filing anything though.
comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by
The value for scrollHeight and scrollWidth on document.body is inconsistent between WebKit and all other browsers. View http://jsfiddle.net/QdKBn/2/ in the latest Chrome and Firefox and compare values to see what I'm talking about.
In this case I would say that WebKit is incorrect because the scrollHeight and scrollWidth *should* be 200, since the body is explicitly set to a width/height of 200px in the CSS. Both are 200 in Firefox, Opera, and IE 7 - 10.
Since draggable's code is using both of these properties in its containment logic (see https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/blob/master/ui/jquery.ui.draggable.js#L426), this is absolutely contributing to the issue you were having in your original example.
comment:9 follow-up: 10 Changed 11 years ago by
I've discovered that containment doesnt work correctly even if body and html dont have padding or margins and width. But my main block has been centered on the page using margin: 0 auto; and max-width is set. Also, one of the draggable parents has 20px padding. And all of it makes containment to work incorrect.
comment:10 Changed 11 years ago by
Replying to alxcube:
I've discovered that containment doesnt work correctly even if body and html dont have padding or margins and width. But my main block has been centered on the page using margin: 0 auto; and max-width is set. Also, one of the draggable parents has 20px padding. And all of it makes containment to work incorrect.
That is likely #6869.
jQuery core has documented limitations:
If you'd like to see this fixed, I suggest filing a bug against core.