I had a problem with sortable, in that, when there was a scrollbar and I had scrolled down the page the box that I was trying to drag around would popup to the top of the page, sometime the css property top of the moving box was a minus number.

I finally managed to get it fixed, I moved line 145 above 144 in this file
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui/source/browse/tags/1.8rc2/ui/jquery.ui.sortable.js

Before the change I was getting this.offset.parent.top as a very hight number(about the same pageY as the helper object in _mouseStart() ) if the page had a scrollbar and I had scrolled down the page. So _generatePosition().top would return a low number even though your current position was at the bottom of a long page.

This is my code, simplified. All of the moving boxes[AdminWidget] are position:static.

1. <div class="AdminSidebar" style="float:left">
2.         <div class="AdminWidget">
3.                 <ul><li><img src="move.png" class="moveWidget" /></li></ul>
4.                 <div class="WidgetContent">....</div>
   
5.         </div>
6.         <div class="AdminWidget">
7.                 <ul><li><img src="move.png" class="moveWidget" /></li></ul>
8.                 <div class="WidgetContent">....</div>
   
   
9.         </div>
10. </div>
11. <div class="AdminSidebar" style="float:left;">
12.         ......
13. </div>
    

1. $(".AdminSidebar").sortable({
           connectWith: '.AdminSidebar',
           handle: '.moveWidget',
           stop: function(event, ui) {
                   var sidebars = $('div.AdminSidebar');
                   //do stuff
   
   
   
   
   
2.         }
   });
   

Any comments on this?

Regards
ingig