JQuery Draggable and Resizeable over IFrames (Solution)

Question

I recently ran into some troubles using JQuery Draggable and Resizable plugins. Looking for solutions, i found some very fragmented code in many different places and finally filed down to a clean solution which seems to work almost perfectly for me.

I thought i'd share my findings for anyone else, should they come accross this issue too.

I have a div which contains and IFrame. This div must be resizeable and draggable. Simple enough - add the jquery draggable and resizable to the div like so:

$("#Div").draggable();
$("#Div").resizable();

All is fine until you drag over another div containing an iframe or try to resize your current div, by moving over your current iframe. Both functions stop when over an iframe.

Solution:

$("#Div").draggable({
    start: function () {
        $(".AllContainerDivs").each(function (index, element) {
        var d = $('');
        $(element).append(d);});
    },
    stop: function () {
        $('.iframeCover').remove();
    }
});



$("#Div").resizable({
    start: function () {
        $(".AllContainerDivs").each(function (index, element) {
            var d = $('');
            $(element).append(d);
        });
    },
    stop: function () {
        $('.iframeCover').remove();
    }
});

Enjoy!

PS: Some extra code to create windows which, when selected, are brought to the front of the other draggables:

In the draggable start function -

var maxZ = 1;
$(".AllContainerDivs").each(function (index, element) {
    if ($(element).css("z-index") > maxZ) {
        maxZ = $(element).css("z-index");
    }
});
$(this).css("z-index", maxZ + 1);

user_522234 · Answer

I first also went like Byron Cobb's solution, but as I'm using a dialog element and the Iframe isn't needed when the dialog is shown (it's a saving dialog), I liked using the modal option:

$('#savingDialog').dialog({
    modal: true
});

user_1183804 · Answer

All great answers, but none were easily implemented for me!

I was helped, but in the end, I used:

Inside the Iframe Header

JQuery Draggable and Resizeable over IFrames (Solution)

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