How do I get the coordinate position after using jQuery drag and drop?

Question

I just made something like that (If I understand you correctly).

I use he function position() include in jQuery 1.3.2.

Just did a copy paste and a quick tweak... But should give you the idea.

// Make images draggable.
$(".item").draggable({

    // Find original position of dragged image.
    start: function(event, ui) {

        // Show start dragged position of image.
        var Startpos = $(this).position();
        $("div#start").text("START: \nLeft: "+ Startpos.left + "\nTop: " + Startpos.top);
    },

    // Find position where image is dropped.
    stop: function(event, ui) {

        // Show dropped position.
        var Stoppos = $(this).position();
        $("div#stop").text("STOP: \nLeft: "+ Stoppos.left + "\nTop: " + Stoppos.top);
    }
});

<div id="container">
    <img id="productid_1" src="images/pic1.jpg" class="item" alt="" title="" />
    <img id="productid_2" src="images/pic2.jpg" class="item" alt="" title="" />
    <img id="productid_3" src="images/pic3.jpg" class="item" alt="" title="" />
</div>

<div id="start">Waiting for dragging the image get started...</div>
<div id="stop">Waiting image getting dropped...</div>

Had the same problem. My solution is next:

$("#element").droppable({
    drop: function( event, ui ) {

        // position of the draggable minus position of the droppable
        // relative to the document
        var $newPosX = ui.offset.left - $(this).offset().left;
        var $newPosY = ui.offset.top - $(this).offset().top;

    }
});

None of the above worked for me.

Here's my solution- works great:

$dropTarget.droppable({
    drop: function( event, ui ) {

    // Get mouse position relative to drop target: 
    var dropPositionX = event.pageX - $(this).offset().left;
    var dropPositionY = event.pageY - $(this).offset().top;
    // Get mouse offset relative to dragged item:
    var dragItemOffsetX = event.offsetX;
    var dragItemOffsetY = event.offsetY;
    // Get position of dragged item relative to drop target:
    var dragItemPositionX = dropPositionX-dragItemOffsetX;
    var dragItemPositionY = dropPositionY-dragItemOffsetY;

    alert('DROPPED IT AT ' + dragItemPositionX + ', ' + dragItemPositionY);

(Based partly off solution given here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10429969/165673)

This worked for me:

$("#element1").droppable(
{
    drop: function(event, ui)
    {
        var currentPos = ui.helper.position();
            alert("left="+parseInt(currentPos.left)+" top="+parseInt(currentPos.top));
    }
});

If you are listening to the dragstop or other events, the original position should be a ui parameter:

dragstop: function(event, ui) {
    var originalPosition = ui.originalPosition;
}

Otherwise, I believe the only way to get it is:

draggable.data("draggable").originalPosition

Where draggable is the object you are dragging. The second version is not guaranteed to work in future versions of jQuery.