So I edited a dojo example to cause the behavior. The selections / ignores work fin in the code provided. Once you turn on the handle options to different handles even you no longer can select the items in the sub lists. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
-Todd
<html><head> <metacharset="utf-8"/> <title>Kendo UI Snippet</title> <linkrel="stylesheet"href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.3.914/styles/kendo.common.min.css"/> <linkrel="stylesheet"href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.3.914/styles/kendo.rtl.min.css"/> <linkrel="stylesheet"href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.3.914/styles/kendo.silver.min.css"/> <linkrel="stylesheet"href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.3.914/styles/kendo.mobile.all.min.css"/> <scriptsrc="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script> <scriptsrc="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.3.914/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script></head><body> <ulid="parent"> <liclass="list-item"><spanclass="handler"></span><div><label>Apples</label></div></li> <liclass="list-item"><spanclass="handler"></span><div><label>Grapefruits</label></div></li> <liclass="list-item"> <spanclass="handler"></span><div> <label>group</label> <ulclass="nested"> <liclass="sub-list-item"> <spanclass="subhandler"></span>Cranberries</li> <liclass="sub-list-item"><spanclass="subhandler"></span>Pineapples</li> <liclass="sub-list-item"><spanclass="subhandler"></span>Strawberries</li> </ul> </div> </li> <liclass="list-item"> <spanclass="handler"></span>group2 <ulclass="nested"> <liclass="sub-list-item"><div><spanclass="subhandler"></span>Cranberries</div></li> <liclass="sub-list-item"><spanclass="subhandler"></span>Pineapples</li> <liclass="sub-list-item"><spanclass="subhandler"></span>Strawberries</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <style> .handler { width: 16px; height: 16px; background-color: #FF0000; display: inline-block; } .subhandler { width: 16px; height: 16px; background-color: #FFFF00; display: inline-block; } </style> <script> function placeholder(element) { return $("<listyle='color: red;'class='list-item'id='placeholder'>Drop Here!</li>"); } $("#parent").kendoSortable({ filter: ">li.list-item", //handler: '.handler', //Uncomment this line ignore: ".nested>li", //ignore nested list-items placeholder: placeholder }); $(".nested").kendoSortable({ //handler: '.subhandler', //And uncomment this line and the sorting will no longer work... filter: ".sub-list-item", placeholder: placeholder }); </script></body></html>