Missing drag and drop handles crosshairs

Hey i was having this problem and your suggestion about replacing the js file did the trick! THX a bunch.

G

I am working on a website that uses the latest Drupal version 6.15.

Suddenly the drag & drop cross hairs disappeared from the Blocks setting page.
None of the already mentioned tips help.

The last thing I did was adding the Views module.
Someone an idea what have caused this issue and how to solve this problem? (javascript? jquery?)

thanks,
Josefine

I had this same problem and it was very annoying. I just solved it now...

What happened was that I was theming and wanted to get jsScrollPane working on my site... To do this I ended up placing an assortment of JS files(jquery.min.js, jquery.jscrollpan.min.js, jquery.mousewheel.js, jquery.em.js, and 1 function in its own script) in the header region on my page.tpl file(i think im missing a module that maybe could do this for me)... I had placed all of my files after <?print $scripts; ?>.... What fixed the problem was when I placed jquery.min.js BEFORE the printing of the scripts.... In later testing I just altogether removed jquery.min.js as I realized Drupal is already calling jquery and calling the min version of it was messing things up... Therefore either stacking the JS files in the right order or removing the unneeded one fixed my problem.

Hope this helps someone, Drupal.org's always been here for me.

Shayne

To EVERYONE who has been having a problem with the drag handles in drupal. The reason is that you site is getting a javaScript error some where, prohibiting the js that applies the drag drop functionailty to not load and alter the dom (show the handles etc).

Use Firebug in FF or Internet explorer turn on JS Debugging by Tools / Internet Options / Advanced / uncheck "Disable script debuggin (internet Explorer) and uncheck Disable script debugging (Other).

This will throw up Microsofts javascript debugging window when it throws an error. Thus allowing you to trouble shoot.

For me, it was jQuery Update and the version of jquery it was pulling over.

That fixed it for me too. We had malware injected on our site and I deleted the files the hosting provider pointed out to me, and then reinstalled Drupal. When I checked the site administration back-end, the drag and drop crosshairs were gone and the row-weight scroll-downs had appeared instead.

I downloaded the Drupal tarball and copied over tabledrag.js file (misc/tabledrag.js), cleared the cache and the cross-hairs reappeared.

Thank you.

Sweet angel of mercy! :-) I thought I was going to be stuck with this being broken, but replacing the "/misc/tabledrag.js" file worked for me. Thank you all so much.

In my case simply enabling the Taxonomy Manager module caused drag and drop handles at admin/structure/taxonomy/[vocab] to disappear. It seems this module is incompatible with other taxonomy related features (as they say on their project page). TM also has these, but sometimes the 'native' view is faster and easier to work with.

All I had to do was recover the /misc/tabledrag.js file from yesterday's backup (before I enabled the Taxonomy Manager module) and [fingers crossed] that has restored the previous functionality (with the Taxonomy Manager module disabled, of course).

I had this same problem and found out it was related to the Context module. When re-ordering some blocks I had clicked the "Show row weights" link and left it that way, which replaced drag handles with manual row weights system-wide. Going back into Context and clicking the "Hide row weights" link fixed the issue.