ui.sortable option helper (clone) doesn't work

[flos]

$('sth').sortable ({

helper: 'clone'

});

seems not to work. There is no cloned helper to drag.

[jbicks]

I ran into this issue as well and realized in order to get the desired behavior I needed to use a draggable in conjunction with a sortable. The draggable is responsible for "cloning" the item. Since you can't really sort a list if you are "cloning" the item, I understand why sortable doesn't support "cloning". In addition you need to remove the element if you are "sorting", so here i use the "isold" class to find and remove the old element. In this example sortable2 is another div that I need to be able to drag into, so this probably would not be necessary in your case. I put my code on jsFiddle:

​http://jsfiddle.net/We8SM/8/

[mikesherov]

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery UI project! I can no longer reproduce the issue using the latest jQuery and jQuery UI. ​http://jsfiddle.net/3Ck4R/

If you can still reproduce it, please feel free to reply to this ticket with a test case showing the problem. Thanks!