How do I disable a jquery-ui draggable?

How do I disable a jQuery draggable, e.g. during an UpdatePanel postback?

Could create a DisableDrag(myObject) and a EnableDrag(myObject) function

myObject.draggable( 'disable' )

Then

myObject.draggable( 'enable' )

To temporarily disable the draggable behavior use:

$('#item-id').draggable( "disable" )

To remove the draggable behavior permanently use:

$('#item-id').draggable( "destroy" )

To enable/disable draggable in jQuery I used:

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

$("#draggable").draggable({ disabled: false });

@Calciphus answer didn't work for me with the opacity problem, so I used:

div.ui-state-disabled.ui-draggable-disabled {opacity: 1;}

Worked on mobile devices either.

Here is the code: http://jsfiddle.net/nn5aL/1/

enabledisabledraggablejqueryopacityproblemhtml

It took me a little while to figure out how to disable draggable on drop—use ui.draggable to reference the object being dragged from inside the drop function:

$("#drop-target").droppable({
    drop: function(event, ui) {
        ui.draggable.draggable("disable", 1); // *not* ui.draggable("disable", 1);
        …
    }
});

HTH someone

Seems like no one looked at the original documentation. May be there was no it at that time))

Initialize a draggable with the disabled option specified.

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

Get or set the disabled option, after init.

//getter
var disabled = $( ".selector" ).draggable( "option", "disabled" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).draggable( "option", "disabled", true );