Dragging items do not position on intital drag?
Hi @tonypartridge Do you have the last GrapesJS version? This is working fine for me with the dragMode: "absolute", Check this basic code below:
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So when I drag a component/item from the bar to the center it will not go where I told it to go... IT always goes about 20% page width to one side? Once added it's adjustable. See this gif: https://gyazo.com/87076de55a1853e80b5dd7ea14ccb94e
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Hi @tonypartridge Do you have the last GrapesJS version? This is working fine for me with the dragMode: "absolute", Check this basic code below:
yeah... I can actually reproduce the same issue when a smaller device view is enabled, probably some kind of regression. I need time to investigate but at the moment I'm kind of busy with other stuff and dragMode is not my priority right now. So, I hope someone else could look at this
I have the same issue when I'm using the absolute drag mode. Blocks always fall out of the canvas and I need to scroll to grab them and place them back into the original desired position. @tonypartridge Did you figure out any way to fix this?
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