Thanks for the feedback. I’ll definitely give styling the ui-draggable and ui-draggable-dragging classes a try – didn’t notice these options in the documentation. The ui-draggable class sounds particularly helpful, since I assume it is applied when items are made draggable (on document ready in this case) and removed whenever draggable(‘disable’) or draggable(‘destroy’) is called. That’s much more convenient than having to write special code for adding and removing the cursor property. And you won’t end up with the move cursor over non-draggable items, which could happen if you assign the cursor manually (as I did) in each item’s CSS block.

One other note, draggable elements get the ui-draggable css class and (during drag) ui-draggable-dragging for styling. So these are an alternative to targeting the elements directly.