Question

I have a tool palette which shows up when an admin user is logged in to a site. The palette is draggable (via jQueryUI.draggable) and I would like it to remember the position between pages/refreshes… Is there a standard way of doing this, or a plug-in I should be using, or do I need to roll my own (via cookies or something)?

Answer 1

Cookies are a fine option – you can use the functions by PPK like this:

$('#palette')
     .css({ top: readCookie("palletteY")*1, left: readCookie("palletteX")*1 })
     .draggable({ stop: function (event, ui) {
         createCookie("palletteX", ui.position.left, 100);
         createCookie("palletteY", ui.position.top, 100);
     } });