Sortable Lists with jQuery UI

Sortable Lists with jQuery UI — a practical guide to jQuery UI sortable with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Persist the order array to your backend.

sortable

$('#tasks').sortable({
  update: function () {
    var order = $(this).sortable('toArray');
    $.post('/api/tasks/order', { order: order });
  }
});