Can't parse sortable?

Question

JavaScript

Hello colleagues! The question is why the placeholder is correctly displayed only when there is such an #items li entry, that is, the style is assigned directly to the li tag. If you assign a style to li, let's say .item, then the placeholder is obtained without a height. The same if the markup is done not through ul>li, but simply by divs. In order for the placeholder to be displayed correctly, you need to write like this #items div {}, etc. What do I not understand?

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Answer 1

As far as I can tell, this is because jQ creates a container with a highlight class. And the container tag depends on the tag used for sorting. As a result, it turns out that the same styles are applied to the placeholder as to the image itself. Here, I tried on take.ms/5OsA7 divs