jQuery UI sortable: determining in what order the items are

Question

Here is an interesting use of JavaScript: reordering items with drag and drop. The implementation itself in my page works fine, but is there a way to determine in which orde

Answer 1

This is what I use currently:

    

    

    



$('#sortable').sortable({
    update: function () { save_new_order() }
});

function save_new_order() {
    var a = [];
    $('#sortable').children().each(function (i) {
        a.push($(this).attr('id') + ':' + i);
    });
    var s = a.join(',');
    alert(s);
}

Alerted value:

2000:0,1000:1,3000:2