Nested li's don't work properly with sortable.

[Eli]

This has several issues, described here:

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1429999/jquery-ui-nested-sortable-errors

[andri]

Unfortunately kae's last demo[1] from bug #4703 with jquery-ui-1.8a1 is indeed practically unusable because of the jerkiness. Often it does two jumps for each mouse stop, at first throwing the element to bottom of the root element, then to the inner list.

[1] ​http://verens.com/demos/nested-sortables/nested-sortables.html

[tonimahoni]

I also had to connect nested sortable lists.

The first approach was to do like this:

$('.selector').sortable({

connectWith: '.selector', items: 'div'

})

=> this basically works but results in a jumpy behavior of the placeholder. Barely usable.

The second approach ist to do like this:

$('.selectorAAA').sortable({

connectWith: '[.selectorBBB, .selctorAAA]',

})

$('.selectorBBB').sortable({

connectWith: .selectorAAA, .selectorBBB?,

})

Actually this should result in a nested sortable list, where you can drag elements from the main list to the child lists, vice-versa, and between the child list. But this doesent work, as the placeholder does not appear when you drag elements from the main list to the child list and from the child list to the main list.

This second issue is described here pretty well: ​http://dl.dropbox.com/u/396448/JQueryUINestedListSorting.html

[rtwo]

I fixed this issue and submitted a pull request on github.

​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/555

[rtwo]

Some examples by Burke Holland:

With unpatched jquery-ui: ​http://jsfiddle.net/burkeholland/AbUPM/4/light/

With a patched version of jquery-ui: ​http://jsfiddle.net/yPQZx/

[Martin Hoch]

Sortable: Fixed jerkiness with nested-sortables. Fixes #4857 - Nested lists don't work properly with sortable.

Changeset: 2b899cc8437c5bc16b60a01a51241e4096fd80db

[Martin Hoch]

Sortable: Fixed jerkiness with nested-sortables. Fixes #4857 - Nested lists don't work properly with sortable. (cherry picked from commit 2b899cc8437c5bc16b60a01a51241e4096fd80db)

Changeset: a4ae3824893c085043122fd83d80723a08061ae2

[mikesherov]

#4741 is a duplicate of this ticket.