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How to Make Sortable Lists

Author: chowsys
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Many web applications need to offer an interface to order items - think about categories in a weblog, articles in a CMS, wishes in an e-commerce website... The old fashion way of doing it is to offer arrows to move one item up or down in the list. The AJAX way of doing it is to allow direct drag-and-drop ordering with server support.

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