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Yo, I have created the usual list that uses drag and drop to reorder stuff and it all works fine. But I don''t want the list to be draggable until someone clicks a button (or link) to enable the reordering. My only idea so far is to have the drag handles hidden with javascript and the show them onclick, but this is messy. Is there not a clean way to do this? Is there a way to