Click vs. Drag by mbostock

This example demonstrates how to disambiguate a click from a drag gesture using d3.event.defaultPrevented. Drag any circle to change its position, or click it to briefly inflate.

Note that you must be careful not to re-append the element on dragstart (mousedown), as this may prevent the browser from dispatching a click event! Instead, defer the move-to-front until the first drag event.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<style>

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
}

svg {
  position: absolute;
}

</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>

var width = self.frameElement ? 960 : innerWidth,
    height = self.frameElement ? 500 : innerHeight;

var data = d3.range(20).map(function() { return [Math.random() * width, Math.random() * height]; });

var color = d3.scale.category10();

var drag = d3.behavior.drag()
    .origin(function(d) { return {x: d[0], y: d[1]}; })
    .on("drag", dragged);

d3.select("body")
    .on("touchstart", nozoom)
    .on("touchmove", nozoom)
  .append("svg")
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height)
  .selectAll("circle")
    .data(data)
  .enter().append("circle")
    .attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + d + ")"; })
    .attr("r", 32)
    .style("fill", function(d, i) { return color(i); })
    .on("click", clicked)
    .call(drag);

function dragged(d) {
  d[0] = d3.event.x, d[1] = d3.event.y;
  if (this.nextSibling) this.parentNode.appendChild(this);
  d3.select(this).attr("transform", "translate(" + d + ")");
}

function clicked(d, i) {
  if (d3.event.defaultPrevented) return; // dragged

  d3.select(this).transition()
      .style("fill", "black")
      .attr("r", 64)
    .transition()
      .attr("r", 32)
      .style("fill", color(i));
}

function nozoom() {
  d3.event.preventDefault();
}

</script>

Click vs. Drag

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