Struggling with jquery ui sortable and tabs (would like to move items around tabs)

Question

Documentation on this subject was quite clear: http://jqueryui.com/sortable/#connect-lists-through-tabs

I tried to do the same in my project, but I cannot get element to

Answer 1

Jamie's answer led me to my own solution:

var $list = $($item.find("a").attr("href"));

instead of:

var $list = $($item.find("a").attr("href")).find(".word-list");

Without changing markup!