Strangely this is broken only in Firefox and Opera (IE, Chrome and Safari works as it should).
Any suggestions for a quick fix?
<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();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="sortable">
<p contenteditable="true">One apple</p>
<p>Two pears</p>
<p>Three oranges</p>
</span>
</body>
</html>
specify a classname for all editable content, then capture all the onmousedown events using this: