Issue #3405Opened April 20, 2021by chrisijoyah0 reactions

FEAT: An event to hook into before a block in dropped into the canvas

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What are you trying to add to GrapesJS?

Describe your feature request detailed There is currently an event to hook into canvas:drop which gives you access to the dropped model. Before a block is dropped inside the canvas I would like to carry out some checks before it is mounted and created. So for example something like canvas:before:drop would give you access to the model before it has been mounted and created and by returning true it continues to add and mount the model, but by returning false it prevents the block from being added the canvas. This feature would be nice as I can't seem to find any other suitable event to hook into for this.

Is there an alternative at the latest version?

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Answers (3)

chrisijoyahApril 20, 20210 reactions

Hi @chrisijoyah did you try using canvas:dragdata? Here an example of usage https://jsfiddle.net/artur_arseniev/87rcb24n/

Does this mean I can prevent the dropped model from being added to the Canvas. Ideally I want to carry out some checks to determine if the dragged block can be dropped into a section and If it doesn't pass the checks I want to prevent that before its added. Is there a way I can do this. Can I do something like result.content= ''

or something like...

editor.on('canvas:before:drop', (model) => {
    if (condition) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
});
artfApril 20, 20210 reactions

Can I do something like result.content= ''

Yeah, you should be able to do that with that trick. Can you tell me more about your use case, what kind of check are you trying to perform?

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