I have a list of images that i can drap and drop, when dragging starts on image i store it's URL in a state like this:
<img
alt="dummy-img"
src="https://dummyimage.com/200x100/c916c9/fff.jpg"
draggable="true"
onDragStart={(e) => {
setURL(e.target.src);
//console.log(URL);
}}
/>
When dropping it i use that state URL to display the image:
<div
ref={ref}
onDragOver={(e) => e.preventDefault()}
onDrop={(e) => {
e.preventDefault();
console.log(e);
handleDrop(e);
}}
></div>
But I was wondering if I could use the event e produced by onDrop to get the URL of the image, without creating another HTML img...
I want to do this to see if it's possible to drop online images directly.
The drag and drop API in vanilla JS works just fine in React too, by saving the data inside the event when dragging starts. Use event.dataTransfer.setData to set a value, and in the drop target, event.dataTransfer.getData to retrieve it. Here's an example:
const App = () => {
const src = "https://dummyimage.com/200x100/c916c9/fff.jpg";
return (
<div>
<img
alt="dummy-img"
src={src}
draggable="true"
onDragStart={e => e.dataTransfer.setData('text/plain', src)}
/>
<div
onDragOver={(e) => e.preventDefault()}
onDrop={(e) => {
e.preventDefault();
console.log(e.dataTransfer.getData('text/plain'));
}}
>drop here</div>
</div>
);
};
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('.react'));<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<div class='react'></div>You can use event.dataTransfer.getData('text/html') to get the HTML of the dropped image. Then, you can use a DOMParser to read the source of the image, which works both for images on the page and images dropped from other sites.
Example:
let dropArea = document.getElementById('dropArea');
dropArea.addEventListener('dragover', e => e.preventDefault());
dropArea.addEventListener('drop', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
let html = e.dataTransfer.getData('text/html');
let src = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, "text/html")
.querySelector('img').src;
console.log(src);
});<img src="https://dummyimage.com/200x100/c916c9/fff.jpg" draggable="true">
<div id="dropArea" style="height: 100px; background: dodgerblue;">Drop here</div>