**Beautiful** and **accessible** drag and drop for lists with [`React`](https://facebook.github.io/react/)
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## Core characteristics
- Beautiful and [natural movement](/docs/about/animations.md) of items ๐
- [Accessible](/docs/about/accessibility.md): powerful keyboard and screen reader support โฟ๏ธ
- [Extremely performant](/docs/support/media.md) ๐
- Clean and powerful api which is simple to get started with
- Plays extremely well with standard browser interactions
- [Unopinionated styling](/docs/guides/preset-styles.md)
- No creation of additional wrapper dom nodes - flexbox and focus management friendly!
## Get started ๐ฉโ๐ซ
We have created [a free course on `egghead.io` ๐ฅ](https://egghead.io/courses/beautiful-and-accessible-drag-and-drop-with-react-beautiful-dnd) to help you get started with `react-beautiful-dnd` as quickly as possible.
[](https://egghead.io/courses/beautiful-and-accessible-drag-and-drop-with-react-beautiful-dnd)
## Currently supported feature set โ
- Vertical lists โ
- Horizontal lists โ
- Movement between lists (โค โ โค)
- [Virtual list support ๐พ](/docs/patterns/virtual-lists.md) - unlocking 10,000 items @ 60fps
- [Combining items](/docs/guides/combining.md)
- Mouse ๐ญ, keyboard ๐นโฟ๏ธ and touch ๐๐ฑ (mobile, tablet and so on) support
- [Multi drag support](/docs/patterns/multi-drag.md)
- Incredible screen reader support โฟ๏ธ - we provide an amazing experience for english screen readers out of the box ๐ฆ. We also provide complete customisation control and internationalisation support for those who need it ๐
- [Conditional dragging](/docs/api/draggable.md#optional-props) and [conditional dropping](/docs/api/droppable.md#conditionally-dropping)
- Multiple independent lists on the one page
- Flexible item sizes - the draggable items can have different heights (vertical lists) or widths (horizontal lists)
- [Add and remove items during a drag](/docs/guides/changes-while-dragging.md)
- Compatible with semantic `
` reordering - [table pattern](/docs/patterns/tables.md)
- [Auto scrolling](/docs/guides/auto-scrolling.md) - automatically scroll containers and the window as required during a drag (even with keyboard ๐ฅ)
- Custom drag handles - you can drag a whole item by just a part of it
- Able to move the dragging item to another element while dragging (clone, portal) - [Reparenting your ``](/docs/guides/reparenting.md)
- [Create scripted drag and drop experiences ๐ฎ](/docs/sensors/sensor-api.md)
- Allows extensions to support for [any input type you like ๐น](/docs/sensors/sensor-api.md)
- ๐ฒ Tree support through the [`@atlaskit/tree`](https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/packages/confluence/tree) package
- A `` list can be a scroll container (without a scrollable parent) or be the child of a scroll container (that also does not have a scrollable parent)
- Independent nested lists - a list can be a child of another list, but you cannot drag items from the parent list into a child list
- Server side rendering (SSR) compatible - see [resetServerContext()](/docs/api/reset-server-context.md)
- Plays well with [nested interactive elements](/docs/api/draggable.md#interactive-child-elements-within-a-draggable-) by default
## Motivation ๐ค
`react-beautiful-dnd` exists to create beautiful drag and drop for lists that anyone can use - even people who cannot see. For a good overview of the history and motivations of the project you can take a look at these external resources:
- ๐ [Rethinking drag and drop](https://medium.com/@alexandereardon/rethinking-drag-and-drop-d9f5770b4e6b)
- ๐ง [React podcast: fast, accessible and beautiful drag and drop](https://reactpodcast.simplecast.fm/17)
## Not for everyone โ๏ธ
There are a lot of libraries out there that allow for drag and drop interactions within React. Most notable of these is the amazing [`react-dnd`](https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd). It does an incredible job at providing a great set of drag and drop primitives which work especially well with the [wildly inconsistent](https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_drag.html) html5 drag and drop feature. `react-beautiful-dnd` is a higher level abstraction specifically built for lists (vertical, horizontal, movement between lists, nested lists and so on). Within that subset of functionality `react-beautiful-dnd` offers a powerful, natural and beautiful drag and drop experience. However, it does not provide the breadth of functionality offered by `react-dnd`. So `react-beautiful-dnd` might not be for you depending on what your use case is.
## Documentation ๐
### About ๐
- [Installation](/docs/about/installation.md)
- [Examples and samples](/docs/about/examples.md)
- [Get started](https://egghead.io/courses/beautiful-and-accessible-drag-and-drop-with-react-beautiful-dnd)
- [Design principles](/docs/about/design-principles.md)
- [Animations](/docs/about/animations.md)
- [Accessibility](/docs/about/accessibility.md)
- [Browser support](/docs/about/browser-support.md)
### Sensors ๐
> The ways in which somebody can start and control a drag
- [Mouse dragging ๐ญ](/docs/sensors/mouse.md)
- [Touch dragging ๐๐ฑ](/docs/sensors/touch.md)
- [Keyboard dragging ๐นโฟ๏ธ](/docs/sensors/keyboard.md)
- [Create your own sensor](/docs/sensors/sensor-api.md) (allows for any input type as well as scripted experiences)
### API ๐๏ธโ
- [``](/docs/api/drag-drop-context.md) - _Wraps the part of your application you want to have drag and drop enabled for_
- [``](/docs/api/droppable.md) - _An area that can be dropped into. Contains ``s_
- [``](/docs/api/draggable.md) - _What can be dragged around_
- [`resetServerContext()`](/docs/api/reset-server-context.md) - _Utility for server side rendering (SSR)_
### Guides ๐บ
- [`` responders](/docs/guides/responders.md) - _`onDragStart`, `onDragUpdate`, `onDragEnd` and `onBeforeDragStart`_
- [Combining ``s](/docs/guides/combining.md)
- [Common setup issues](/docs/guides/common-setup-issues.md)
- [Using `innerRef`](/docs/guides/using-inner-ref.md)
- [Setup problem detection and error recovery](/docs/guides/setup-problem-detection-and-error-recovery.md)
- [Rules for `draggableId` and `droppableId`s](/docs/guides/identifiers.md)
- [Browser focus retention](/docs/guides/browser-focus.md)
- [Customising or skipping the drop animation](/docs/guides/drop-animation.md)
- [Auto scrolling](/docs/guides/auto-scrolling.md)
- [Controlling the screen reader](/docs/guides/screen-reader.md)
- [Use the html5 `doctype`](/docs/guides/doctype.md)
- [`TypeScript` and `flow`: type information](/docs/guides/types.md)
- [Dragging `
