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HTML

<div id="container">

    <div id="object">
        <p>I want to be dragged</p>
    </div>

</div>

CSS

#container {
    background-color: pink;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

#object {
    position: absolute;
    background-color: gray;
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    text-align: center;
}

JavaScript

var $object = $('#object');
var $container = $('#container');

$object.css({left: ($(document).width() / 2) - ($object.width() / 2)})
    .css({top: ($(document).height() / 2) - ($object.height() / 2)})
    
$container.draggable().bind("dragstop", function(event, ui) {
            
    $container.css({left: 0, top: 0});
        
});