jQuery UI: sortable('toArray') returns an empty array

Question

This has me stumped. The follow code returns \",,,,,,\":

Answer 1

I was having this issue as well except i did have id's on my elements, jQuery's sortable('toArray') was very hit an miss on return the ids, however you can grab them in javascript using this:

function getSortOrder() {
    var children = document.getElementById('sortedElement').childNodes;
    var sort = "";
    for (x in children) {
        sort = sort + children[x].id + ",";
    }
    return sort;
}

This of course returns the ID's in a comma delimited string but you can return the array. I'm sure there's a better way to solve this problem, this is just the solution i found.