Thanks James, the context parameter was what I needed. ui.item is an object returned by Sortable containing the elements used in sorting.
On Oct 13, 10:40 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote: > The jquery selector has a second parameter > 'context':http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery#expressioncontext > > such that if defined it will only select what's a descendant of that > element. > You can also use find():http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/find#expr > > By the way, what is ui.item? An object? (Class/ID) String? > > On Oct 13, 12:49 am, Matt <guitarroman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Writing a sortable list function. > > > My <li> elements contain several items (headings, paragraphs etc) and > > I want to add a class to the headings when they've been sorted. > > > I have this code in my sortable init: > > > receive: function(event, ui) { > > $(ui.item).addClass('editable'); > > }, > > > This adds class="editable" to my newly-sorted <li> element - cool. > > What I want, though, is to add this class to the <h3> within my <li>. > > I tried: > > > receive: function(event, ui) { > > $(ui.item + ' h3').addClass('editable'); > > }, > > > but this just gave a syntax error. > > > Is there a way to do this? > > > Thanks, > > Matt
