jQuery + Sortable + live

Question

I'm adding list items to a page dynamically with $.get, then appending them to the OL element. Pretty usual to this point.

But jQuery isn't aware of these new items when they get loaded into the page, and I'm not being able to make them sortable.

I made some trials with jQuery Live, but didn't get anywhere whit that...

Answer 1

Did you try .sortable('refresh')? http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Sortable#method-refresh

Answer 2

The refresh method of .sortable() does not seem to recognize li's which are NOT added via the .sortable() functions.

Try adding your .sortable() initialisation code into a function which you call on document ready AND in you code where you dynamically add li's.

Instead of:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery("#mySortableOL").sortable({
        ...
    });
}
...
jQuery("#mySortableOL").append(...);
jQuery("#mySortableOL").sortable("refresh");

Try something like:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery("#mySortableOL").doSort();
}
...
jQuery("#mySortableOL").append(...);
doSort();
...
function doSort(){
    jQuery("#mySortableOL").sortable({
        ...
    });
}