# Marquee Selection and Feedback

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marquee-selection-and-feedback/121449>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 28, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marquee-selection-and-feedback/121449 "2007-11-28T03:56:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![geego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@geego](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geego)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marquee-selection-and-feedback/121449/1 "2007-11-28T03:56:49Z")

</div>

I need to implement a marquee style selection in which I would drag a  
cursor so as to draw a box on an image and return the coordinates  
while it is dragging (thus live feedback) in a popup/tooltip style  
fashion and then feed that information back to the rails app.

Is there something out there that already does this or provides the  
foundations for such a function or do I need to build it from scratch  
somehow with Scriptaculous or MooTools?

-geego