How to debug a jQuery nested sortable draggable element?

Question

The first part allows you to first drag an element into a sortable div, which is working fine. I then want to have that div become sortable as well so I can drag new elements (p

Answer 1

seems you've uncovered a bug in sortable... a potential workaround is to recreate the '.part-holder' sortable whenever it's re-ordered...

$('.part-holder', ui.item).sortable('destroy');

put that right above

...
$('.part-holder', ui.item).sortable({ 
   ...

it's a hack, but hey it works... :)