What am trying to achieve is dragging an element from one IFRAME/FRAME into another IFRAME/FRAME. But upon dropping the element, I do not want the target IFRAME/FRAME to open/load it. I want to set the data type to "text" at the source, so that the drop operation simply drops a set text string onto a target text entry field.

Under IE, when dragging an object, it is possible to catch the “dataTransfer.s etData” event to...