jQuery UI: Preserving Sortables

The sortable interaction widget let's the user arrange a list of items. Which is great, except for when you want to preserve the order of those items. As soon as you reload the page, the order is gone. That is, of course, unless you're storing the order as part of the application somewhere. But if you just want to create a sortable that preserves the order using the cookie plugin, here is how you can do that. This is my basic sortable list.