lets just see the logic behind this. <div class="listitem position1"> item </div>
<div class="listitem position2"> item </div> <div class="listitem position3"> item </div> <div class="listitem position4"> item </div> say we have item as mentioned above. METHOD 1 ------------------ save to database : your table would be like so if you are using MYSQL ID INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, userID INT(11) NOT NULL, position TEXT NOT NULL, html TEXT NOT NULL if you are using SQL SERVER ID INT NOT NULL -- set identifier to yes and set increment to 1 userID INT NOT NULL, position VARCHAR(max) NOT NULL, html VARCHAR(max) NOT NULL for both cases index ID as Primary Key non clustered index on position non clustered index on html my idea is to save the html of a specific position to the db and refill the positions based on this note i used classes such as position1, position2 to identify my locations I have created one table that will keep track of the positions for each user if you do not want to use a database you can use cookies :) your cookies would be : position, html same type of logic On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:39 AM, cs...@hotmail.com <cs3p...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > Hi all: > > i am trying to use jquery UI sortable on my webpage to display > toolbars. what i want is, let people sort these toolbars in the way > they like. i have named toolbars with id "1","2","3","4", and i saved > sorted order to database via toArray method. i was wondering how i > could display these toolbars with new order when people browser my > site next time, is there any method that supports it? > > i am really appreciate for your help, thx in advance > > > andy >