How to Prevent Drag-and-Drop Support in Angular Image Editor

This article explains how to prevent drag-and-drop support in the Angular Image Editor component.

Prevent Drag-and-Drop in Angular Image Editor

To prevent drag-and-drop functionality in the Angular Image Editor component, you can disable the uploader’s drop area during the created event. This ensures that users cannot drag and drop files into the editor.

Here’s how the implementation works:

1. In the HTML template, define the Image Editor component and bind the created event:

<ejs-imageeditor #imageEditor id='imageEditor' (created)="created()" ></ejs-imageeditor> 

2. In the component TypeScript file, use the created() method to access the internal uploader and disable its drop area by retrieving the uploader instance and setting the dropArea property to ‘none’:

public created(): void {
   const imageEditorElement = document.getElementById('imageEditor');
   const fileUploadElement = imageEditorElement?.querySelector(
     '#imageEditor_dropfileUpload'
   );
   if (fileUploadElement) {
     const uploader = getComponent(
       fileUploadElement as HTMLElement,
       'uploader'
     ) as any;
     if (uploader) {
       uploader.dropArea = 'none';
     }
   }
 } 

3. In the CSS file, hide the drop area visually to ensure it doesn’t appear in the UI:

.e-image-editor .e-ie-drop-area {
 display: none;
} 

This approach ensures that both the functionality and the visual element of drag-and-drop are disabled, providing a cleaner and more controlled user experience.

Output

The drag-and-drop area will no longer be visible or functional in the Image Editor component.

Live Example

You can view a working sample here:
Sample Example

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to prevent drag-and-drop support in Angular Image Editor.

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