---
title: "Sprite Drop Zone"
description: "Demonstrates how to turn any Game Object into a drop zone for drag-and-drop interactions, including handling drag enter, leave, and drop events."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "1024x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/sprite-drop-zone
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Sprite Drop Zone

Demonstrates how to turn any Game Object into a drop zone for drag-and-drop interactions, including handling drag enter, leave, and drop events.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Input / Zones](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones.md). It runs at 1024 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/sprite-drop-zone.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### sprite drop zone.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.image('ayu', 'assets/pics/ayu2.png');
        this.load.atlas('cards', 'assets/atlas/cards.png', 'assets/atlas/cards.json');
    }

    create ()
    {
        //  Create a stack of random cards

        const frames = this.textures.get('cards').getFrameNames();

        const x = 100;
        let y = 100;

        for (let i = 0; i < 64; i++)
        {
            const image = this.add.image(x, y, 'cards', Phaser.Math.RND.pick(frames)).setInteractive();

            this.input.setDraggable(image);

            y += 6;
        }

        //  A drop zone
        const zone = this.add.image(500, 300, 'ayu').setInteractive();

        zone.input.dropZone = true;

        this.input.on('dragstart', function (pointer, gameObject)
        {

            this.children.bringToTop(gameObject);

        }, this);

        this.input.on('drag', (pointer, gameObject, dragX, dragY) =>
        {

            gameObject.x = dragX;
            gameObject.y = dragY;

        });

        this.input.on('dragenter', (pointer, gameObject, dropZone) =>
        {

            zone.setTint(0x00ff00);

        });

        this.input.on('dragleave', (pointer, gameObject, dropZone) =>
        {

            zone.clearTint();

        });

        this.input.on('drop', (pointer, gameObject, dropZone) =>
        {

            gameObject.x = dropZone.x;
            gameObject.y = dropZone.y;
            gameObject.setScale(0.2);

            gameObject.input.enabled = false;

            zone.clearTint();

        });

        this.input.on('dragend', (pointer, gameObject, dropped) =>
        {

            if (!dropped)
            {
                gameObject.x = gameObject.input.dragStartX;
                gameObject.y = gameObject.input.dragStartY;
            }

        });

    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.WEBGL,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 1024,
    height: 600,
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Zones

- [Basic Input Zone](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/basic-input-zone.md): Demonstrates how to use invisible Zone game objects to define interactive hit areas over specific regions of a static image.
- [Circular Drop Zone](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/circular-drop-zone.md): Demonstrates how to create a drop zone with a circular hit area and handle drag events like enter, leave, and drop to provide visual feedback and snap items into position.
- [Drop Zone](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/drop-zone.md): Learn how to create a drop zone for draggable Game Objects. This example covers detecting when a dragged object enters or leaves a zone, snapping objects into place upon a successful drop, and returning them to their original position if the drop fails.
- [Resize Zone](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/zones/view/resize-zone.md): This example demonstrates how to dynamically resize an input Zone and its hit area at runtime using a tween.

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