Question

Okay I’m really not sure what I’m doing wrong here but the div is not created and I don’t know why?

$('#tree_01').draggable({appendTo: 'body', helper: 'clone', stop: function(event, ui) {
                var bg_pos_x = -5;
                var bg_pos_y = -1516;
                var width = 148;
                var height = 174;
                var pos_x = $(ui.helper).position().left;
                var pos_y = $(ui.helper).position().top;
                var id = 'tree_'+pos_x+'_'+pos_y;
                folliage(id,bg_pos_x,bg_pos_y,width,height,pos_x,pos_y);
            }});

When the draggable element is dropped it should run the code and go to the following function:

function folliage(id,bg_pos_x,bg_pos_y,width,height,pos_x,pos_y){
    var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
    newdiv.setAttribute('id', id);
    document.getElementById(id).style.left=pos_x+'px';
    document.getElementById(id).style.zIndex='5';
    document.getElementById(id).style.left=pos_y+'px';
    document.getElementById(id).style.width=width+'px';
    document.getElementById(id).style.height=height+'px';
    document.getElementById(id).style.background='url(../img/village.png)';
    document.getElementById(id).style.backgroundPosition=bg_pos_x+'px '+bg_pos_y+'px';

}

but the div doesn’t get created????

Answer 1

You never actually add the div to the page. You need to use something like append to add the div to the DOM.