Question

When using jQuery UI draggable+sortable the draggable element loses it’s css when dropped into sortable. Here’s my code and here’s a js fiddle demo

Try to put the draggable div into sortable and see that it loses it’s (in this case) background-color and border. Is it possible to prevent this?

<script>
    $("#content").sortable({
        revert:true
    });
    $( "#draggable" ).draggable({
      connectToSortable: "#content",
      revert: "invalid",
      stop: function(event,ui) {
        $(ui.item).attr('id','draggable');
      }
    });
</script>
<style>
 #content {width:150px;}
 #draggable {   
    width:50px;
    height:50px;
    border:1px solid red;
    background-color:blue;} 
 .text {
    min-height:100px;
    width:100%;
    border:1px solid red;

    background-color:red;
 }
</style>
<div id="content">
    <div class="text">Item</div>
    <div class="text">Item</div>
    <div class="text">Item</div>
    <div class="text">Item</div>
    <div class="text">Item</div>
    <div class="text">Item</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Or if you need the ID for other things, you can add this code to your sortable call:

  beforeStop: function (event, ui) { 
      newItem = ui.item;
  },
  receive: function(event,ui) {
      $(newItem).attr("id","draggable");     
  }

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/y6KHn/5/

see jquery: how to update draggable clone id?