According to the Drag and drop Editor's draft[1] the drag events should populate the document immediate user selection (which I assume it's reflected in Selection DOM object) with the elements that are under the mouse pointer. See test URL : http://habarnam.ro/webkit-drop-test.html Tested on: Chromium 17.0.963.26 (Developer Build 0) OS Linux WebKit 535.11 (Unknown URL@0) In Firefox 9.0 on linux the drop event behaves correctly. [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/dnd.html#immediate-user-selection