jQuery UI Sortable forceHelperSize Option

Last Updated : 25 Jan, 2022

jQuery UI is a web-based technology and consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using the jQuery, JavaScript Library. jQuery UI is the best tool for building UI interfaces for the webpages. It can also be used to build highly interactive web applications or can be used to add widgets easily.

In this article, we will learn how to use the jQuery UI Sortable forceHelperSize Option. Using this option, we can use it to forces the helper to have a size. The default value of this option is false.

Syntax:

The forceHelperSize option takes a boolean value and the syntax is as follows.

$( "Selector" ).sortable({
    forceHelperSize: true
});

Get the forceHelperSize option

var forceHelperSize = $( ".selector" )
    .sortable( "option", "forceHelperSize" );

Set the forceHelperSize option

$( ".selector" ).sortable( 
    "option", "forceHelperSize", true );

CDN Link: The following jQuery Mobile scripts will be needed for your project so we need to add these scripts to your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src= “https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src= “https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example: This example describes the uses of the jQuery UI Sortable forceHelperSize Option.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8"> 
    <link rel="stylesheet"
        href= 
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css"> 
    <script
        src= 
"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script
        src= 
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <style> 
        #sortable { 
            list-style-type: none; 
            width: 50%; 
        } 
  
        #sortable li { 
            margin: 10px; 
            padding: 0.5em; 
            font-size: 25px; 
            height: 20px; 
            background-color: green; 
        } 
        #gfg 
        { 
            margin-left: 50px; 
        } 
        #btn 
        { 
            margin-left: 50px; 
            padding: 0.5; 
            font-size: 20px; 
            height: 40px; 
            width: 40%; 
        } 
    </style> 
    <script> 
        $(function () { 
            $("#btn").on('click', function () { 
                var forceHelperSize = $("#sortable") 
                .sortable( "option", "forceHelperSize" ); 
                document.getElementById('gfg').innerHTML += 
                "ForceHelperSize Value : " + forceHelperSize; 
            }); 
        }); 
  
        $(function () { 
            $("#sortable").sortable(); 
            $( "#sortable" ).sortable({ 
              forceHelperSize: true 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
  
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQuery UI Sortable forceHelperSize Option</h3> 
  
        <ul id="sortable"> 
            <li id='hndl'>Geeks1</li> 
            <li>Geeks2</li> 
            <li>Geeks3</li> 
        </ul> 
          
        <input type="button" id="btn"
            value="Get ForceHelperSize"> 
          
        <h3><span id="gfg"></span></h3> 
          
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html> 