refreshPositions and hidden elements

refreshPositions and hidden elements

All,

I responded to an existing post and didn't get a response, so I am creating a new post to see if anyone has ideas.  I read the post by douglas and I am seeing similar issues:

http://forum.jquery.com/topic/droppable-element-visibility#14737000001138928

I am doing something very similar to what Douglas is doing, however, I have noticed a undesirable behavior that I am hoping someone can shed some light on.  I have several nested unordered lists that can be expanded and collapsed where we allow users to drag and drop items to new locations.  When the user drags an item over another item that is collapsed, the over item expands so that the user can place the item where they want.

I added refreshPositions and this works nicely for the most part.  What I am seeing though is that the mouse movement is restricted to the original area size that my nested unordered list was at the time when the user first clicks the left mouse button.  For example, if the nested UL vertical size is 300 px when the user begins dragging, the dragged item will never allow me to move it down past the 300 px original size, even when the nested UL auto expands to twice its original size.

Does anyone have any ideas on why this is occurring and how I might approach resolving this issue?  The refreshPositions works great inside of the original size... I just need it to see that the droppable area is not limited to its original size.

Thanks in advance

Jesse