Actually this is working, as you can see by pressing tab: the editable element receives focus. I think the problem is that the sortable plug-in is hijacking the mousedown event and thus preventing the editable element from receiving focus when you click on it.
A workaround is to add a mousedown event handler to the editable element that ensures it receives focus:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#sortable').sortable();
$('#editable')[0].onmousedown = function() {
this.focus();
};
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="sortable">
<p contenteditable="true" id="editable">One apple</p>
<p>Two pears</p>
<p>Three oranges</p>
</span>
</body>
</html>
Tim Down
2010-06-08 08:46:09