jquery UI Sortable with table and tr width

Question

I am using jQuery UI sortable to make my table grid sortable. The code seems to work fine but because I am not adding width to tds, when I drag the tr

Answer 1

Keith' solution is fine but produced a little havoc in Firefox which did not add up the colspans but cued them. (The old js string type pain in the knee)

replacing this line:

 cellCount += colspan;

with:

 cellCount += colspan-0;

Fixes the problem. (As js is forced to treat the variables as numbers instead of strings)