HI all i have an menu buider app using drag and drop...
**what i want to do is when ever i am adding a child to a parent menu i want to add a attirbute to the droped child element "parent=Mens"..i.e
suppose i had dropped "Mens" as main menu and I am dropping child "Shoe" as its child
<ol class="ui-droppable">
<li><a id="1001"> Mens</a>
<ol class="ui-droppable">
//now here i am dropping child shoe
//and here i want to add an attrbute parent
<li><a id="2001" parent="Mens">Shoe</a> </li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
so this is want i want to achieve can any one help me in doing this
here is my drag and droppable code for Menu Building
var i = 1;
var z = 1;
$(document).ready(function () {
$("button[id='columnadd']").click(function () {
// create the element
var domElement = $('<div id="shoppingCart' + i++ + '" class="shoppingCart"><h2 class="ui-widget-header">Add Menu Items Here <img src="../Images/delete.png" id="shoppingCart' + z++ + '" style="float: right; cursor:pointer;" onclick="removecolumn(this.id)"/></h2><aside class="ui-widget-content" id="droppable"><ol><li class="placeholder">Add your items here</li></ol></aside></div>');
var holder = "#columnholder";
$("#columnholder").append(domElement);
//$(this).after(domElement);
// at this point we have domElement in our page
// make it droppable
domElement.find("ol").droppable({
activeClass: "ui-state-default",
accept: '.small_box li',
greedy: true,
drop: function (event, ui) {
makeItDroppableToo(event, ui, this);
}
});
});
function makeItDroppableToo(e, ui, obj) {
$(obj).find(".placeholder").remove();
var draggedID = ui.draggable.attr('id');
alert(draggedID);
//var placeholder = $("<ol><li>Add Sub Menu here</li></ol>");
var placeholder = $("<ol><li class='submenuholder'>Drop SubMenu here</li></ol>");
$("<li></li>").append('<a id="' + draggedID + '" draggable="true" droppable=true>' + ui.draggable.text() + '</a>').append(placeholder).appendTo($(obj));
// this is the same as the previous one
placeholder.droppable({
greedy: true,
// put options here
drop: function (event, ui) {
makeItDroppableToo(event, ui, this);
}
});
}
$(".small_box li").draggable({
appendTo: "body",
helper: "clone"
});
});
please can any one help me out here