jQuery drag and drop – how to get at element being dragged

Is it not the ui.draggable?

If you go here (in Firefox and assuming you have firebug) and look in the firebug console youll see I am doing a console.dir of the ui.draggable object which is the div being dragged

Therefore the code you need in the drop function is

       drop: function(ev, ui) {
                 //to get the id
                 //ui.draggable.attr('id') or ui.draggable.get(0).id or ui.draggable[0].id
                 console.dir(ui.draggable)  
       }