feat(cdkDrag): cdkDragExclude to mark a part of the tree as should not be #29827
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area: cdk/drag-drop
feature
This issue represents a new feature or feature request rather than a bug or bug fix
P4
A relatively minor issue that is not relevant to core functions
Feature Description
Create a Directive (tentatively named cdkDragExclude) that when applied to an element does the effective inverse of cdkDragHandle. That element and it's children will not be able to be dragged/not cause the cdkDrag'ed item to be dragged.
As an alternative to a new directive, It should be possible to accomplish the same goal without adding a new directive by making it so that a cdkDragHandle that's disabled, inside another cdkDragHandle, (or a cdkDrag that's disabled inside another cdkDrag), will result in that element being un-dragable. As it stands, a cdkDrag in a cdkDrag will result in the parent one being moved, and a cdkDragHandle in a cdkDragHandle has no impact. I'm not sure how changing the interactions like that needs to be considered from an API stability point, and I'm also unsure if that's an acceptable option as it is not very intuitive.
Use Case
This is specifically targeted at parts of a component/component tree that have interactive elements of their own. (or where one might wish there to be interactivity)
This was discussed previously in #12929 and there was a response of "You can use the cdkDragHandle directive to configure which element should be draggable". The complexity of certain draggable components makes this nearly untenable under some circumstances unfortunately.
If I need to disable dragging on a single sibling element, I have to add cdkDragHandle to all other siblings of that element, all siblings of the element's parent, the parents parent, and so on until I reach the root dragable element itself. That process alone does not account for any margin on the element, which would have to be replaced with margin elements that also have cdkDragHandle, or other such hacks.
This only gets more complicated and unweildly the more elements you have that require disabling of the dragging.
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