I set up a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/T2WkF/6/
Heres an example with a working ui autocomplete + ui draggable function of the list items.
HTML:
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="tags">Tags:</label>
<input id="tags" />
</div>
jQuery:
$(function () {
var availableTags = [{
label: "foo",
desc: "1",
number: "0"
}, {
label: "foo1",
desc: "2",
number: "1"
}, {
label: "foo2",
desc: "3",
number: "2"
}];
$("#tags").autocomplete({
source: availableTags,
focus: function (event, ui) {
$('li.ui-menu-item a:contains("' + ui.item.value + '")').draggable({
helper: "clone",
stop: function (event, ui) {
console.log($(this).text());
}
});
}
});
});
This is more or less just a dummy, but answers your question hopefully.