Question

so I followed an HTML5 drag and drop example here:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/#toc-dataTransfer

and created the following code

http://jsfiddle.net/Vk5zT/

The problem is, I want to be able to essentially swap the entire element, and its data attributes, not just the inner html. How do I do this?

Answer 1

You could just swap the elements themselves, not serializing and reparsing new elements.

        var parent = this.parentNode,
            insertionPoint, elem = this;

        do {
            elem = elem.nextSibling;
        } while (elem && elem !== draggedItem);

        insertionPoint = elem ? this : this.nextSibling;
        parent.insertBefore(draggedItem, insertionPoint);
        draggedItem = null;

http://jsfiddle.net/Vk5zT/11/