Sortable: calculating item positions on the fly and setting the direction variable when inserting an item into a different sortable. Fixed #8268 - Items may not be inserted into the correct position when dragged between connected sortables

(cherry picked from commit c42bdce)

Conflicts:

	ui/jquery.ui.sortable.js

Author: scottgonzalez

ui/jquery.ui.sortable.js

@@ -730,30 +730,31 @@ $.widget("ui.sortable", $.ui.mouse, {
 		if(this.containers.length === 1) {
 			this.containers[innermostIndex]._trigger("over", event, this._uiHash(this));
 			this.containers[innermostIndex].containerCache.over = 1;
-		} else if(this.currentContainer != this.containers[innermostIndex]) { 
-
-			//When entering a new container, we will find the item with the least distance and append our item near it 
-			var dist = 10000; var itemWithLeastDistance = null; var base = this.positionAbs[this.containers[innermostIndex].floating ? 'left' : 'top']; 
-			for (var j = this.items.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) { 
-				if(!$.ui.contains(this.containers[innermostIndex].element[0], this.items[j].item[0])) continue; 
-				var cur = this.items[j][this.containers[innermostIndex].floating ? 'left' : 'top']; 
-				if(Math.abs(cur - base) < dist) { 
-					dist = Math.abs(cur - base); itemWithLeastDistance = this.items[j]; 
-				} 
-			} 
-
-			if(!itemWithLeastDistance && !this.options.dropOnEmpty) //Check if dropOnEmpty is enabled 
-				return; 
-
-			this.currentContainer = this.containers[innermostIndex]; 
-			itemWithLeastDistance ? this._rearrange(event, itemWithLeastDistance, null, true) : this._rearrange(event, null, this.containers[innermostIndex].element, true); 
-			this._trigger("change", event, this._uiHash()); 
-			this.containers[innermostIndex]._trigger("change", event, this._uiHash(this)); 
-
-			//Update the placeholder 
-			this.options.placeholder.update(this.currentContainer, this.placeholder); 
-		
-			this.containers[innermostIndex]._trigger("over", event, this._uiHash(this)); 
+		} else if(this.currentContainer != this.containers[innermostIndex]) {
+
+			//When entering a new container, we will find the item with the least distance and append our item near it
+			var dist = 10000; var itemWithLeastDistance = null; var base = this.positionAbs[this.containers[innermostIndex].floating ? 'left' : 'top'];
+			for (var j = this.items.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
+				if(!$.ui.contains(this.containers[innermostIndex].element[0], this.items[j].item[0])) continue;
+				var cur = this.containers[innermostIndex].floating ? this.items[j].item.offset().left : this.items[j].item.offset().top;
+				if(Math.abs(cur - base) < dist) {
+					dist = Math.abs(cur - base); itemWithLeastDistance = this.items[j];
+					this.direction = (cur - base > 0) ? 'down' : 'up';
+				}
+			}
+
+			if(!itemWithLeastDistance && !this.options.dropOnEmpty) //Check if dropOnEmpty is enabled
+				return;
+
+			this.currentContainer = this.containers[innermostIndex];
+			itemWithLeastDistance ? this._rearrange(event, itemWithLeastDistance, null, true) : this._rearrange(event, null, this.containers[innermostIndex].element, true);
+			this._trigger("change", event, this._uiHash());
+			this.containers[innermostIndex]._trigger("change", event, this._uiHash(this));
+
+			//Update the placeholder
+			this.options.placeholder.update(this.currentContainer, this.placeholder);
+
+			this.containers[innermostIndex]._trigger("over", event, this._uiHash(this));
 			this.containers[innermostIndex].containerCache.over = 1;
 		}