 <p>I tried reproducing this in a simple <a href="http://jsbin.com/abaveh/1/edit" rel="nofollow">jsbin demo</a> to no avail. Drag and drop seems to work without losing the content. The code I've used was this:</p> <pre><code> &lt;textarea class="editor" style="width: 400px"&gt;Editable Content&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;textarea class="editor" style="width: 400px"&gt;Editable Content&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;textarea class="editor" style="width: 400px"&gt;Editable Content&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;textarea class="editor" style="width: 400px"&gt;Editable Content&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;script&gt; $(".editor").kendoEditor().closest(".k-widget").draggable(); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre>