Request: Don't start dragging unless cursor been dragged x pixels.

[tornstrom]

I ran into an issue where I have items that expand when clicked. When making them sortable they no longer respond to a click, instead they become dragged immediately. I can get around this by setting the "pressDelay" but then you have to wait for the delay before it's draggable which I noticed that people tend not to do.
I'd like a way to not start the sorting unless you have actually dragged the cursor for say 5px.

[NeXTs]

Yes, I guess it will be much more evident to users than "pressDelay" option
Really looking forward to this feature too

[bvaughn]

I encountered a similar issue with sortable FlexTable rows. My table contained <input> tags which stopped working when I made the whole row draggable. (Clicks on the <input> would just start a drag.) I ended up using the drag-handle approach, which works pretty well. But if there was some sort of threshold it might be nicer still.

This might still lead to edge-cases when it comes to things like text-selection so maybe some way to cancel/block a drag (eg #36) might also be nice.

[clauderic]

Just published 0.0.8 with this feature. Just pass in a distance prop to your SortableContainer.

Alternatively, you may also use shouldCancelStart, which was just released today as well. This function gets invoked before sorting begins and can be used to programatically cancel sorting before it begins.

Here's the default implementation:

function shouldCancelStart(e) {
    // Cancel sorting if the event target is an `input`, `textarea`, `select` or `option`
    if (['input', 'textarea', 'select', 'option'].indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase()) !== -1) {
        return true; // Return true to cancel sorting
    }
}

[NeXTs]

aww yeah!

[tornstrom]

Sweet, thanks @clauderic!