Jquery UI Sortable - Get the item being sorted

Question

When using Jquery UI Sortable (which is great by the way) how do you get the item that is currently being sorted.

When you use $(this); it return the actual sortable list, not the current sorted item.

I want to do fancy-pants things with the widget when the user is dragging it around. E.g. Animate it when dragging between two lists.

So how do I get the current item being sorted?

There a little code below just to explain a little more...

$(function() {
    $("#sortable_1").sortable({
        start : function(event, ui){ 
            //get current element being sorted
        },
        stop : function(event, ui){ 
            //get current element being sorted
        }
    }).disableSelection();
});

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware ui in your start: function(event, ui) is the current element being sorted.

As pointed out in the comments ui.item is the current element.