I received a bit of a nasty shock when by sheer chance, one of the project managers updated their machines and got Internet Explorer 9 installed in the process, only to instantly come back to me and announce that the drag and drop features on our web project no longer worked – at all.
A quick look around, and indeed all the draggable, droppable and sortable interfaces that come with our use of the awesome jQuery and jQuery UI libraries were all of a sudden not working under IE 9. The other browsers, IE 8 included, still worked fine, but not this new beast of a browser.
Thankfully though, a quick look about on the jQuery UI support forums yielded the fact that a) this was indeed a bug that has long been identified, and b) that the bug fix ticket around it has since been resolved and closed.
See http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-ui-does-not-work-on-ie9 .
So how do you sort out the problem then? Well if you can, you need to upgrade to the latest version of the jQuery UI library. The fix has now been in since version 1.8.6, so anything higher will resolve the issue.
And now for a big sigh of relief :)
Related Link: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-ui-does-not-work-on-ie9