Get the order of list item in jquery sortable

Question

I have done this http://jsbin.com/UBezOVA/1/edit.

When I click the submit button, i want to get the current order of the list item. But, it seems that $(\"#sortab

Answer 1

gaurav is on the right track, but as purefusion mentioned "id attributes are always supposed to start with an alpha character"

Accordingly, The html valid approach is to add data attributes

var idsInOrder = $("#sortable2").sortable('toArray', {attribute: 'data-id'});

$(document).ready(function() {

  var idsInOrder = $("#sortable2").sortable('toArray', {
    attribute: 'data-id'
  });


  alert(idsInOrder);

});

  
Item 1
  
Item 2
  
Item 3
  
Item 4
  
Item 5