DataTransfer: getData() method
The DataTransfer.getData()
method retrieves drag data (as a string) for the specified type.
If the drag operation does not include data, this method returns an empty
string.
Example data types are text/plain
and text/uri-list
.
Syntax
js
getData(format)
Parameters
format
-
A string representing the type of data to retrieve.
Return value
A string representing the drag data for the specified format
. If the drag operation has no data or the operation has no data for the specified format
, this method returns an empty string.
Caveats
- Data availability
-
The HTML Drag and Drop Specification dictates a
drag data store mode
. This may result in unexpected behavior, beingDataTransfer.getData()
not returning an expected value, because not all browsers enforce this restriction.During the
dragstart
anddrop
events, it is safe to access the data. For all other events, the data should be considered unavailable. Despite this, the items and their formats can still be enumerated.
Examples
This example shows the use of the DataTransfer
object's
getData()
and
setData()
methods.
HTML
html
<div id="div1" ondrop="drop(event)" ondragover="allowDrop(event)">
<span id="drag" draggable="true" ondragstart="drag(event)"
>drag me to the other box</span
>
</div>
<div id="div2" ondrop="drop(event)" ondragover="allowDrop(event)"></div>
CSS
css
#div1,
#div2 {
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
}
JavaScript
js
function allowDrop(allowdropevent) {
allowdropevent.target.style.color = "blue";
allowdropevent.preventDefault();
}
function drag(dragevent) {
dragevent.dataTransfer.setData("text", dragevent.target.id);
dragevent.target.style.color = "green";
}
function drop(dropevent) {
dropevent.preventDefault();
const data = dropevent.dataTransfer.getData("text");
dropevent.target.appendChild(document.getElementById(data));
document.getElementById("drag").style.color = "black";
}
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # dom-datatransfer-getdata-dev |
Browser compatibility
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