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container.css('overflow','hidden'); // hide browser scrollbars
dragStart = {}; // variable to store starting position
 
container.bind('mousedown',function(e){
 dragStart.offsetX = e.offsetX;
 dragStart.offsetY = e.offsetY;  
}).bind('mousemove',function(e){
 if(dragStart.offsetX != null){
  var diffX = dragStart.offsetX - e.offsetX;
  var diffY = dragStart.offsetY - e.offsetY;
   
  container.scrollLeft(container.scrollLeft()+diffX);
  container.scrollTop(container.scrollTop()+diffY);
 }
}).bind('mouseup',function(e){
 dragStart = {};
}).bind('mouseout',function(e){
 dragStart = {};
});