I've only just started playing with JQuery the past two days so I've probably missed something. I'm using the interface plugin to create a set of divs sortable by dragging. (I'm using interface rather than UI because as I understand it UI only allows sortable lists).
The odd behaviour can bee seen in the example page at http://www.fogcat.co.uk/jquery/gs5.html If you grab the letter A and drag you can only move that item to the top or the bottom, dragging C only allows you to select 1st secod or last (but not all of those with the cursor in the right place). However if I simply remove the line containment: 'parent', from the initialisation of the sortable the dragging works fine although it is no longer constrained. see http://www.fogcat.co.uk/jquery/gs5.html. Is this a bug or have I missed something obvious