jQuery live and sortable

Question

I have the following static html:

    
Item 10
    


        

Answer 1

.live() is event based, so you can't use it for plugins like this. What you can easily do is call that code when your AJAX call finishes, for example:

$.ajax({
 //options...
  success: function(data) {
    //create UL
    $("#mylist").sortable({axis:"y"});
  }
});

The same goes for short forms of $.ajax(), for example:

$("#mylist").load("pageThatGivesTheLIElementGoodness.htm", function() {
  $(this).sortable({axis:"y"});
})