Jquery droppable - Greedy not working as expected

Question

I am having an unusual issue with droppable. I have a lot of code so I will try to simplify my question as best as possible.

I have two divs that are droppable within a

Answer 1

Here's the thing.

jQuery UI prevents a ancestor droppables from receiving drop events when a descendent droppable is configured with {greedy: true}. It does not prevent sibling or cousin droppables from receiving drop events in cases where one overlaps the other.

This is a design decision by jQuery UI. They do not intend to fix it.