Question

I’m trying to track the mouse position while I click and drag an a[href] value to the bookmarks bar (it’s for a bookmarklet). It seems to stop tracking a few seconds after I start dragging.

Code is below.

var isDragging = false;
$('a#dragthis')
        .mousedown(function() {
            $(window).mousemove(function(e) {
                isDragging = true;
                var x = e.pageX;
                var y = e.pageY;
                console.log(x + "|" + y);
            });
        });

Here is a jsFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/GZpHP/

Answer 1

You need to return false in your mousedown handler, to prevent the default action of selecting text upon drag.

Updated fiddle