# Help!  Can't drop

By [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again) · 2009-07-12

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![](http://blog.nickgrossman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fastrac.png)

When I couldn't sleep the other night, I started mocking up a zippy drag-n-drop front end for [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org), based on the snappy UI of tools like [Things](http://culturedcode.com/things) (working title is FasTrac).  Then, **bam!** Bitten by a weird, seems-like-a-bug w/ [jQuery UI drag and drop](http://jqueryui.com/demos/draggable/).  It appears that droppables aren't discoverable by draggables if the droppable has a fixed width.  I have a hard time believing that's true, yet here I am.  I [posted to the jQuery UI list](http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui/browse_thread/thread/516ca408e54b50e?pli=1), but haven't heard back yet. Any ideas?  I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious... [Here's a working example illustrating the problem](http://sandbox.wrkng.net/jquery-dragdrop-width-problem/).

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