# farhadi/html5sortable

Lightweight jQuery plugin to create sortable lists and grids using native HTML5 drag and drop API.

Repository: https://github.com/farhadi/html5sortable
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/html5sortable
Homepage: http://farhadi.ir/projects/html5sortable
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-10-01T09:09:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5332, "days_push": 2162, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1670, forks 369 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:19.970634+00:00)

## What it is
A lightweight jQuery plugin (under 1KB minified) that adds drag-and-drop sortable lists and grids using the native HTML5 drag and drop API. It offers a jQuery-UI-compatible sortable API with connected lists, handles, and update events.

## Use cases
- make a list reorderable with drag and drop
- sortable grid of items using native html5 dnd
- reorder items and save the new order on update
- create connected sortable lists
- replace jquery-ui sortable with a tiny dependency

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and need a tiny sortable widget
- you want a jQuery-UI-compatible API without the full jQuery UI library
- targeting legacy browsers with native HTML5 drag and drop support

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the project is explicitly unmaintained and recommends RubaXa's Sortable instead
- you need touch/mobile drag-and-drop support
- you don't use jQuery

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: drag-and-drop, sortable-lists, jquery-plugin, html5, deprecated, jquery

## Member repositories
- farhadi/html5sortable (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.970634+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:42:44.374470+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/farhadi/html5sortable (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.970634+00:00, sha 9f31b5f18d57)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.