Jquery UI Draggable Absolute Instead of Relative?

Question

I have a div containing a few jquery draggables, however if at any point I remove one of these draggables from the page then this can move the rest of them as they are positione

Answer 1

You can set the position to be absolute by using the jQuery css function when setting an element to be draggable.

$(this).draggable().css("position", "absolute");