# Scriptaculous drag-and-drop and fixed position drop\_receiving\_elements

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scriptaculous-drag-and-drop-and-fixed-position-drop-receiving-elements/149889>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 30, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scriptaculous-drag-and-drop-and-fixed-position-drop-receiving-elements/149889 "2008-09-30T21:21:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scriptaculous-drag-and-drop-and-fixed-position-drop-receiving-elements/149889/1 "2008-09-30T21:21:16Z")

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I’ve got to imagine someone’s run into this problem before, though I  
can’t seem to find a good explanation on how to fix it. Any guidance  
would be greatly appreciated…

I have a fixed position div with category names in a “column” on the  
left in my app. In the main body are entries, which a user can drag  
onto the corresponding category in the left column to categorize the  
entry through drag-and-drop. Since the list of entries scrolls, I’ve  
made the category module fixed position so that it is always in view.

The problem is that once I start scrolling down the list of entries  
and the categories module moves, it no longer accepts drag-and-drop  
entries - the drop zone for the categories has been left behind at the  
top of the column.

I found this related fix and tried it, but it didn’t seem to do the  
trick:

[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6411#comment:2](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6411#comment:2)

I replaced ‘within’ with ‘withinIncludingScrolloffsets’ in dragdrop.js  
and it didn’t do the trick.

Has anyone had trouble with this in the past? Any thoughts on how to  
get this to work?

Thanks,  
-A