drag and Drop with jqueryUI

by jpeter06

HTML

<INPUT type="button" value="addItem" onclick="addElement()" name="button1">
    <div id="creator" >create</div>
<ul id="sortable3" class="connectedSortable">
  <li class="ui-state-highlight" id="fake">Item 1</li>  
    <li class="ui-state-highlight" id="fake1">Item 33</li>
</ul>
<ul id="sortable1" class="connectedSortable">
  <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 id="sortable2" class="connectedSortable">
  <li class="ui-state-highlight">Item 1</li>
  <li class="ui-state-highlight">Item 2</li>
  <li class="ui-state-highlight">Item 3</li>
  <li class="ui-state-highlight">Item 4</li>
  <li class="ui-state-highlight">Item 5</li>
</ul>

CSS

#sortable1, #sortable3, #sortable2 { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 2.5em; float: left; margin-right: 10px; }
  #sortable1 li,  #sortable3 li, #sortable2 li { margin: 0 5px 5px 5px; padding: 5px; font-size: 1.2em; width: 120px; }

JavaScript

$(function() {
    $( "#sortable1, #sortable2 , #sortable3" ).sortable({
      connectWith: ".connectedSortable",
            start: function(event, ui) {
              $('.connectedSortable').find('li:hidden').show().clone();
            }
    }).disableSelection();
    $("#creator").mousedown(function(e){
     // $("#sortable3").trigger("mousedown.draggable", [event]);
       // $("#fake").draggable().trigger('start',e);
        //$("#sortable3").trigger('start',$("#fake"));
        $('#fake').one('mousedown', function(e) {
            alert("a");
            $("#fake").draggable().trigger(e);
        });
    });
  });

function addElement(){
    $('#sortable1').append('<li class="ui-state-default">Item 6</li>');
}