SortableJS/Sortable

How can I only change children order in the nested example

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#1,801 opened on Apr 16, 2020

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Dear all. I am looking to use a nested example. I want to be able to only change the children's order, so I want to disable the movement of any child to another parent and or moving the child to be a child of the previous child and I want to disable moving a parent to be a child to another parent or child.

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javascript
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frontend
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feature
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Research direction
The issue asks for a way to restrict nested sortable behavior to only allow reordering within the same parent group, preventing moving items between parents or changing nesting levels. This may be achievable by configuring the `group` option or using `onMove` callback. The maintainers should clarify if this is a supported use case or a missing feature. Refer to the SortableJS documentation and examples for nested lists (e.g., https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable#nested sortables). The single comment provides no additional guidance.