I\'m using JQuery\'s draggable(); to make li elements draggable. The only problem is when the element is dragged outside its parent, it doesn\'t show up. That is, it doesn\'
I had a similar issue and resolved it by setting the option:
appendTo: 'body'
The only side effect to this is if you have styles applied to the item based on it's parent container, those styles won't be present on the helper.