I'm disabling dragging on jquery sortable list but not sure how to enable it back, can someone point me in direction please,

$(".anotherClass").sortable('disable'); //it disables it

I can't seem to find anything in documentation.

This question says enable input here but its not working

$("#wantedItems").sortable({
    receive: function (event, ui) {
        //enable the input here  which input ???????????????????????????????
    }
});

I'm disabling dragging on jquery sortable list but not sure how to enable it back, can someone point me in direction please,

$(".anotherClass").sortable('disable'); //it disables it

I can't seem to find anything in documentation.

This question says enable input here but its not working

$("#wantedItems").sortable({
    receive: function (event, ui) {
        //enable the input here  which input ???????????????????????????????
    }
});

• javascript
• jquery
• jquery-ui-sortable

• Just to clarify, you want to enable $(".anotherClass").sortable()? – Dom Commented Mar 5, 2013 at 14:30

4 Answers 4

You just call it with 'enable'

$( ".selector" ).sortable( "enable" );

Documentation for method: http://api.jqueryui./sortable/#method-enable

simply write.....

$(".anotherClass").sortable()

enable()

Enables the sortable.

• This method does not accept any arguments.

Code examples:
Invoke the enable method:

$( ".selector" ).sortable( "enable" );

Link: http://api.jqueryui./sortable/#method-enable

To enable sortable() again you can use

$(".anotherClass").sortable("enable");

To toggle enable/disable on the click of a button with id toggleButton

$('#toggleButton').click(function() {
    //check if sortable() is enabled and change and change state accordingly
  // Getter
  var disabled = $(".anotherClass").sortable( "option", "disabled" );
  if (disabled) {
    $(".anotherClass").sortable( "enable" );
  }
  else {
    $(".anotherClass").sortable("disable");
  }
});