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If I trigger a 'remove' custom event on an element of a sortable area, the sortable functionality stops.

I use this 'remove' custom event in my app to communicate between different listeners and binders and I’d like to understand why it interferes with jquery-ui.

I can’t find documentation about the 'remove' event anywhere. Note: there is the remove attribute in the options, which corresponds to the 'sortremove' event type according to the docs, but nothing about the event type 'remove'.

I’ll have to rename my event to avoid this conflict, but is this a feature? A bug? Is the 'remove' event used internally only, and if so, should I request that they namespace it, say 'ui-remove'?

See this fiddle for an example: http://jsfiddle.net/yWg8v/7/

Answer 1

remove is bound when widget is created in the widget source in _createWidget:

this.element.bind( "remove." + this.widgetName, function() {
    self.destroy();
});

sortable is a widget. You will have to rename your event. Your suggestion of adding a ui- prefix sounds like a great solution but I am not sure how the developers would feel and how it would affect other widgets.