jquery draggable enable and disable

Question

Ive tried anything to do this, but always get the same error

$(".tooltip").draggable('disable');

Error: cannot call methods on draggable prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'disable'

Prior to initialization? So I cannot remove the option before its actually being dragged around? Ive tried with droppable as well, cant seem to get them disabled enabled without getting this error.

edit: I found out that I have an element with the class that is without draggable (which makes sense when you look at the error). Now I just have to find a way so it disables all the draggables without throwing the error :)

Answer 1

Try this:

$(".tooltip").draggable({ disabled: true });

This initializes the draggable in the disabled state. You can then use

$(".tooltip").draggable("enable");

later when you want to allow dragging.

Answer 2

I was able to recreate your scenario in this jsfiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/dboots/NDZKY/

This is using

$('.draggable').draggable('disable');

and

$('.draggable').draggable('enable');

Is there something different that you're not able to do the same? Looks like you have the same syntax.