jQuery drag and drop – checking for a drop outside a droppable

Because the droppable’s drop event fires before the draggable’s stop event, I think you can set a flag on the element being dragged in the drop event like so:

jQuery('#droppable').droppable(
{
    accept: '#draggable',
    drop: function(event, ui)
    {
        ui.helper.data('dropped', true);
        // awesome code that works and handles successful drops...
    }
});

jQuery('#draggable').draggable(
{
    revert: false,
    start: function(event, ui) {
        ui.helper.data('dropped', false);
    },
    stop: function(event, ui)
    {
        alert('stop: dropped=' + ui.helper.data('dropped'));
        // Check value of ui.helper.data('dropped') and handle accordingly...
    }
});