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37 lines
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# Native File Drag & Drop
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Certain kinds of applications that manipulate files might want to support
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the operating system's native file drag & drop feature. Dragging files into
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web content is common and supported by many websites. Electron additionally
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supports dragging files and content out from web content into the operating
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system's world.
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To implement this feature in your app, you need to call `webContents.startDrag(item)`
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API in response to the `ondragstart` event.
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In your renderer process, handle the `ondragstart` event and forward the
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information to your main process.
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```html
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<a href="#" id="drag">item</a>
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<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
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document.getElementById('drag').ondragstart = (event) => {
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event.preventDefault()
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ipcRenderer.send('ondragstart', '/path/to/item')
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}
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</script>
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```
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Then, in the main process, augment the event with a path to the file that is
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being dragged and an icon.
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```javascript
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const { ipcMain } = require('electron')
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ipcMain.on('ondragstart', (event, filePath) => {
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event.sender.startDrag({
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file: filePath,
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icon: '/path/to/icon.png'
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})
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})
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```
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