Question

I am implemented a jQuery UI sortable element.

Here is my code:

$(function() {
        $( "#sortable" ).sortable({
                placeholder: "ui-state-highlight",
                stop: function(event, ui)
                {
                    alert('pos:' + ui.position);
                    alert(ui.offset);
                }
        });
        $( "#sortable" ).disableSelection();
});

The sorting is working. According to the documentation the the ui parameters in events will have several properties (e.g. ui.position, ui.offset, etc.)

When I alert these they are all returning [object Object]

I am trying to figure out what position was moved. (i.e. position 5 is now position 3) So I can save the new positions in a DB.

Answer 1

These parameters are objects, not strings.
alerting them calls toString(), which returns "[object Object]".

You can see what is in the objects by console.loging them instead.