title: Sortable elements where the handle sits outside the element to be dragged?
body: <p>Is it possible to make an element sortable and you drag its sub-elements using a handle BUT the handle is not a child of the sub-element?</p>
  
  <p>For numerous reasons the drag handles will reside in the body element and not inside the element to be dragged. Will JQuery's sortable work this way?</p>
  
  <p>Below is a simple example of what I would like to achieve (that does not work):</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$(document).ready(function() {
  
    // How to associate a handle that sits outside the element to be dragged?
      $( ".elements" ).sortable({
       connectWith: ".elements",
       handle: ".handle"
    });
  });</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>p {
    height: 100px;
    background-color: red;
  }
  
  .handle {
    width: 300px;
    height: 64px;
    margin: 20px;
    font-size: 2em;
    background-color: blue;
    cursor: move;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="handle" target="foo"&gt;
    &lt;span&gt;+ FOO Handle&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="handle" target="bar"&gt;
    &lt;span&gt;+ BAR Handle&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;br/&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="elements"&gt;
    &lt;p id="foo"&gt;Foo&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p id="bar"&gt;Bar&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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