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This page describes the drag-and-drop functionality in Confluence, and the browser configurations needed to support that functionality.

Overview of the drag-and-drop features

Confluence supports these forms of drag-and-drop:

Drag-and-drop within the editor. Working inside the editor panel, you can drag an image or a macro and drop it into a different location on the page.
Drag-and-drop for external images and files. You can drag a file from a location outside Confluence, and drop it directly into the editor. For example, try it with images, video files, audio files, Office documents, and PDF files. The contents of the file will be embedded into the page or blog post.

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You can drag files from your computer or file system onto your browser and attach them to your Confluence pages or blog posts. You can drag and drop:

When you drag and drop files onto the different Confluence views, you get the following results:

Confluence View	Result
Attachments	Files are attached
Page	Files are attached
Edit	Files are attached, and embedded at the cursor position

For dragging files from your computer or file system onto your browser, your browser must support the drag-and-drop functionality of HTML5. Browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 9 offer limited HTML5 functionality and don't support drag-and-drop.

Some older Confluence themes do not support Confluence's drag-and-drop feature.
- Supported themes: Confluence Default theme, Documentation theme.
- Themes that are not supported: Left Navigation theme, Clickr theme. You cannot drag and drop attachments into spaces that use these themes.

If you wish to disable the drag-and-drop feature, you can disable the entire Confluence Drag and Drop Plugin. See Disabling and enabling apps.
You can also disable the drop zone that appears on the 'Attachments' view or the image dialog box, by disabling the View Attachments Drop Zone or Image Dialog Drop Zone modules of the above plugin. This will remove these drop zones while retaining Confluence's drag-and-drop functionality.