DragEvent: DragEvent() constructor

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

This constructor is used to create a synthetic DragEvent object.

Although this interface has a constructor, it is not possible to create a useful DataTransfer object from script, since DataTransfer objects have a processing and security model that is coordinated by the browser during drag-and-drops.

This interface inherits properties from MouseEvent and Event.

Syntax

js
new DragEvent(type)
new DragEvent(type, dragEventInit)

Parameters

type

A string representing the name of the event (see DragEvent event types).

eventInitDict Optional

An object containing the following properties:

dataTransfer Optional

A DataTransfer. Defaults to null.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# the-dragevent-interface

Browser compatibility

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