jQuery sortable item height

Question

I\'ve got a simple jQuery sortable based on a list as follows:

  
Item 1
  
Item 2
  
Item 3         


        

Answer 1

After much hair-tearing I added this event to the sortable:

  start: function( event, ui ) {
    $( this ).sortable( 'refreshPositions' )
  },

It seems to do the trick as I think start() is called after the helper has been created, so refreshing the positions resets the height. Probably jQuery should do this itself, but for now I'm happy.