In many modern web applications, developers look for ways to make it easier and more intuitive for users to interact. A drag and select function can help your users select multiple objects quickly.

Step 1

We first need to create the group of objects that will be selected. More likely than not, most people will use server side script such as C# or PHP. Since that is beyond the scope of this tutorial, I will instead create them by hand. We can use most tags as objects. The only requirement is that the object must have basic mouse events assigned to them. For this tutorial I will simply use a table with two rows and five cells filled with DIVs with some basic CSS to give them shape…