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Image Drag bookmarklet fixed

Boris Zbarsky offered a fix for my image drag bookmarklet’s problems in Strict doctype pages. The problem was due to Mozilla, when operating in strict mode, refusing to absolutely position elements that don’t have a unit of measurement specified. The bookmarklet now works perfectly on pretty much every page I’ve tried it on.

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Posted 13th February 2003 at 11:54 pm

This is Image Drag bookmarklet fixed by Simon Willison, posted on 13th February 2003.

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  1. You mean the problem was due to Mozilla doing the right thing...

    Ian Hickson - 14th February 2003 13:56 - #

  2. I wonder if something similar could be used to reposition absolutely positioned DIVs on a page.

    Joshua Kaufman - 16th February 2003 22:10 - #

  3. Am I the only one who gets an error with this? When I try it out with IE 6 / Win XP, it gives a "not implemented" error on line 174 (where there's a document.createElement('img')). Not sure why that is. I even got that error when trying it on this very page.

    Slime - 11th April 2003 21:54 - #

  4. It doesn't work with IE unfortunately - at the moment it's Mozilla/Gecko-engine only.

    Simon Willison - 14th April 2003 11:46 - #

  5. Oh, this is neat. I don't know what I'll use it for, but it's amusing nonetheless.

    Peach - 3rd June 2003 08:25 - #

  6. Using a variation of this to reposition DIVs would indeed be sweet.

    I'd like to see it combined with this effect. Talk about rapid prototyping!!

    Chris - 9th April 2004 21:29 - #

  7. Why does this bookmarklet destroy the IMG and create a new one instead of just making the old IMG draggable? (If document.createElement is the only thing IE doesn't support, changing that would probably make it work in IE.)

    Jesse Ruderman - 13th April 2004 05:47 - #

  8. Well, document.createElement usually does work in IE. Or at least that's what I thought.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/re ference/methods/createelement.asp

    Microsoft says it does.

    It worked in David's mark external links code he used to use.

    Tom - 13th April 2004 18:02 - #

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