Take any list and add an identifier to the outer wrapper (ul, div)
<ul id="sortable">
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<li>Item 3</li>
<li>Item 4</li>
</ul>
In your jquery:
$(function(){
$('#sortable').sortable({
//pass all options in here
});
});
This will allow all the li in the #sortable wrapper to be dragged and dropped in the list