jquery sortable cannot be dragged outside of accordion

Question

I have 2 connected sortable lists. One is inside an accordion. When I try to drag items from the sortable in the accordion, the helper disappears as soon as I get outside of t

Answer 1

In your sortable call you want to use the following options:

helper: "clone", appendTo: "body", // or whatever element you want the helper clone to be attached to

This does two things. First it makes a copy of the element being dragged (helper option), second it attaches that helper to the specified element (appendTo option).

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