script.aculo.us Sorting constraint Option Last Updated : 18 Jan, 2022 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report The constraint option in the Sortable module is used to restrict the direction of movement of the elements while they are being dragged. It can either be set to 'horizontal' or 'vertical', thereby allowing movement in only that direction. Its default value is 'vertical’. Syntax: Sortable.create('list', {constraint: 'horizontal' | 'vertical' }) The examples below demonstrate this option: Example 1: In this example, the constraint option is set to 'horizontal'. HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="scriptaculous.js"> </script> <style> li { cursor: move; } </style> </head> <body> <ul id="list"> <li>tag</li> <li>overlap</li> <li>constraint</li> <li>containment</li> <li>handle</li> </ul> <script> Sortable.create('list', { tag: 'li', constraint: 'horizontal' }); </script> </body> </html> Output: Example 2: In this example, the constraint option is set to 'vertical'. HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="scriptaculous.js"> </script> <style> li { cursor: move; } </style> </head> <body> <ul id="list"> <li>tag</li> <li>overlap</li> <li>constraint</li> <li>containment</li> <li>handle</li> </ul> <script> Sortable.create('list', { tag: 'li', constraint: 'vertical' }); </script> </body> </html> Output: Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Must Do Coding Questions for Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, ... S swapnil074 Follow Improve Article Tags : Technical Scripter JavaScript Web Technologies Technical Scripter 2020 HTML-Misc script.aculo.us +2 More Similar Reads Interview Preparation Interview Preparation For Software Developers Must Coding Questions - Company-wise Must Do Coding Questions - Topic-wise Company-wise Practice Problems Company Preparation Competitive Programming Software Design-Patterns Company-wise Interview Experience Experienced - Interview Experiences Internship - Interview Experiences Practice @Geeksforgeeks Problem of the Day Topic-wise Practice Difficulty Level - School Difficulty Level - Basic Difficulty Level - Easy Difficulty Level - Medium Difficulty Level - Hard Leaderboard !! Explore More... Data Structures Arrays Linked List Stack Queue Binary Tree Binary Search Tree Heap Hashing Graph Advance Data Structures Matrix String All Data Structures Algorithms Analysis of Algorithms Searching Algorithms Sorting Algorithms Pattern Searching Geometric Algorithms Mathematical Algorithms Randomized Algorithms Greedy Algorithms Dynamic Programming Divide & Conquer Backtracking Branch & Bound All Algorithms Programming Languages C C++ Java Python C# Go Lang SQL PHP Scala Perl Kotlin Web Technologies HTML CSS JavaScript Bootstrap Tailwind CSS AngularJS ReactJS jQuery NodeJS PHP Web Design Web Browser File Formats Computer Science Subjects Operating Systems DBMS Computer Network Computer Organization & Architecture TOC Compiler Design Digital Elec. & Logic Design Software Engineering Engineering Mathematics Data Science & ML Complete Data Science Course Data Science Tutorial Machine Learning Tutorial Deep Learning Tutorial NLP Tutorial Machine Learning Projects Data Analysis Tutorial Tutorial Library Python Tutorial Django Tutorial Pandas Tutorial Kivy Tutorial Tkinter Tutorial OpenCV Tutorial Selenium Tutorial GATE CS GATE CS Notes Gate Corner Previous Year GATE Papers Last Minute Notes (LMNs) Important Topic For GATE CS GATE Course Previous Year Paper: CS exams Like