Knockout initializing empty form inputs not work after sorting sortable form elements

Question

Here is fiddle jsfiddle.net/jw7Je

I have a view model bounded to a two templates and an editable form in a single page.

The two templates are initially loaded with sample data, The form is displayed without sample data through this custom binding

ko.bindingHandlers.emptyInit = {
    init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, 
                   viewModel, bindingContext) 
    {
        element.value = '';
    }
}

<input type="text" data-bind="value: jw_fullname, valueUpdate: 'afterkeydown', emptyInit: emptyInit" placeholder="Full Name" id="jw_fullname" />

Everything loads up fine initially, but the i have sortable sections of forms through knockout sortable.

<div data-bind="sortable: data"> 
<div class="item">
       <p class="span6">
       <label>Course Name</label>
       <input type="text" data-bind="valueWithInit: jw_educname, valueUpdate: 'afterkeydown',emptyInit: jw_educname" placeholder="Course Name" class="educname" />
       </p>
       <p class="span6">
       <label>Institution Name</label>
       <input type="text" data-bind="value: jw_eduiname, valueUpdate: 'afterkeydown', emptyInit: jw_eduiname" placeholder="Insitution Name" class="eduiname" />
       </p>
  </div>
</div>

After the user make the change to the form and sorts the elements, the corresponding elements values resets to empty again, although the values in the view model are updated.

How to retain the updated values in those textboxes in sortable sections ?

I am trying with

ko.bindingHandlers.emptyInit = {
    init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, 
                   viewModel, bindingContext) 
    {

            var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor()) || '';

            if (element.value !== value) {
                element.value = value;

            }else {
                element.value = '';
            }

    },
     update: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, 
                   viewModel, bindingContext) 
     {
              var value = valueAccessor();
            var valueUnwrapped = ko.unwrap(value);
            //console.log(valueUnwrapped);



     }
} 

Answer 1

The fields get cleared because Knockout-sortable removes the moved elements and adds new ones in their place.

I found this pull request that seems to solve the problem: https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-sortable/pull/83