jQuery: What to do with the list that sortable('serialize') returns?

Question

With jQuery I\'m retrieving positions of a sortable list using \'serialize\', like this:

var order = $(\'ul\').sortable(\'serialize\');

The vari

Answer 1

Found it! I needed to add the option key:'string' which changes the variable name to 'string' instead of 'id'.

var order = $('#projects ul').sortable('serialize',{key:'string'});

$.post('ajax.php',order+'&action=updateOrder');