Native Drag and Drop remove and Swap.

by Shrikrishna Gupta

HTML

<script type="application/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

<ul id="people" data-bind='template: { name: "personTmpl", foreach: people }'>
</ul>
<div class="trash" data-bind ="visible:dragging, event:{
       dragover: function(data, event){
          event.preventDefault();
       },
       drop: function(data, event){
          console.log('trash', $root.drag_start_index())
          $root.trash($root.drag_start_index())     
          event.preventDefault();
       }
}"> <span>DELETE</span> </div> 

<script id="personTmpl" type="text/html">
    <li class="draggable" draggable="true" data-bind="event:{
      dragstart:   function(data, event){ 
                    $(event.target).addClass('dragSource')
                    $root.drag_start_index($index());
                    return $(event.target).hasClass('draggable');},    

       dragend:   function(data, event){  
                   $root.drag_start_index(-1);
                   $(event.target).removeClass('dragSource')
                   return true;
       },    
       dragover:  function(data, event){event.preventDefault();},
       dragenter: function(data, event){
                $root.drag_target_index($index());
                var element = $(event.target)
                if(element.hasClass('draggable'))
                     element.toggleClass('dragover'); 
                event.preventDefault();
    },
       dragleave: function(data, event, $index){
                var element = $(event.target)
                if(element.hasClass('draggable'))
                     element.toggleClass('dragover');
                event.preventDefault();
    },
       drop: function(data, event){
                $(event.target).removeClass('dragover'); 
                console.log('swap', $root.drag_start_index(),  $root.drag_target_index() )
                $root.swap($root.drag_start_index(),  $root.drag_target_index())
               }
            ...

CSS

li {
   border:  1px solid black;
    background-color: #d3d3d3;
    margin: 5px;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 100px;
    text-align: center;
}
.dragSource{
opacity : .4;
}
.dragover{
    border-style: dashed;
}

.trash{
    border:1px solid red;
    background-color: pink;
    text-align:center;
}

JavaScript

var Person = function(name) {
    this.name = ko.observable(name);

};

var PeopleModel = function() {
    var self = this;

    self.drag_start_index = ko.observable();
    self.drag_target_index = ko.observable();
    self.dragging = ko.computed(function() {
        return self.drag_start_index() >= 0;
    });
    self.people = ko.observableArray([
        new Person("Oleh"), new Person("Nick C."), new Person("Don"), new Person("Ted"), new Person("Ben"), new Person("Joe"), new Person("Ali"), new Person("Ken"), new Person("Doug"), new Person("Ann"), new Person("Eve"), new Person("Hal")]);


    self.trash = function(index) {
        self.people.splice(index, 1)
    }
    self.swap = function(from, to) {
        if (to > self.people().length - 1 || to < 0) return;

        var fromObj = self.people()[from];
        var toObj = self.people()[to];
        self.people()[to] = fromObj;
        self.people()[from] = toObj;
        self.people.valueHasMutated()
    }
};
ko.applyBindings(new PeopleModel());