Test Case Boilerplate
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HTML
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/jquery-ui-git.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/jquery-ui-git.css">
<div class="demo">
<ul id="draggables">
<li id="draggable" class="ui-state-highlight">Drag me down</li>
</ul>
<ul class="sortable" style="display: none;">
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 1</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 2</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 3</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 4</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 5</li>
</ul>
<ul class="sortable">
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 1</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 2</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 3</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 4</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 5</li>
</ul>
<ul class="sortable">
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 1</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 2</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 3</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 4</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 5</li>
</ul>
<ul class="sortable">
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 1</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 2</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 3</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 4</li>
<li class="ui-state-default">Item 5</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
.demo ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.demo ul.sortable { float: right; width: 33.3%; }
.demo li { margin: 0; margin-bottom: 5px; border-width: 5px; }
.demo ul#draggables li { width: 150px; };
.demo ul.sortable li { width: 100%; }
JavaScript
$(".sortable").sortable({
forcePlaceholderSize: true,
placeholder: 'ui-state-highlight',
revert: true
});
$("#draggable").draggable({
connectToSortable: '.sortable',
helper: 'clone',
revert: 'invalid'
})
$("ul, li").disableSelection();
//$(".sortable:hidden").sortable('disable');