There is quite a bit of chatter on the forums about this bug, especially on CodePlex, reaching back over the last twelve months.
The issue is that the DragPanelExtender really only works properly with the "Position: Static" type of positioning, otherwise the offsets from the origin of the page get added back in, and the panel that you are trying to drag goes zinging off in a down-and-to-the-right
direction.
The advice seems to be to use a table for the initial positioning of your panels.
If you check out
my sample output, You will understand that I had to create a 20 x 20 table to make these panels look like they had been artlessly scattered.
My questions are:
<div mce_keep="true">Is there not some better way?</div>
<div mce_keep="true">Given that this bug seems fairly serious, and has been around for 12 months, is there a statement as to which SP the fix will be in? It fairly seriously limits the usefulness of the DragPanelExtender, which is a brilliantly useful
control.</div>
Hexagon Glob...
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DragPanelExtender and Absolute Positioning Bug
Jan 17, 2009 10:09 AM|LINK
There is quite a bit of chatter on the forums about this bug, especially on CodePlex, reaching back over the last twelve months.
The issue is that the DragPanelExtender really only works properly with the "Position: Static" type of positioning, otherwise the offsets from the origin of the page get added back in, and the panel that you are trying to drag goes zinging off in a down-and-to-the-right direction.
The advice seems to be to use a table for the initial positioning of your panels.
If you check out my sample output, You will understand that I had to create a 20 x 20 table to make these panels look like they had been artlessly scattered.
My questions are:
Many thanks,
Hexagon Global.
DragPanelExtender ajaxtoolkit DragPanel Position:Absolute