Jquery ui-sortable - unable to drop tr in empty tbody

Question

I have two connected tbody elements allowing me to drag rows between two tables. Everything works fine until all rows are removed from either table.

When all rows have

Answer 1

I have the same question, and managed to half solve it by doing this:

$('table').sortable(
{
    connectWith: 'table',
    items: 'tbody tr'
});

This allows me to move rows on to an empty table, and it looks fine, but the element is inserted after the tbody instead of inside it. I think Danny Robert's answer will work for me but I'd be interested in seeing a non hack solution.