diff --git a/demos/draggable/sortable.html b/demos/draggable/sortable.html
index fdaa18e2b..01bc8ff9e 100644
--- a/demos/draggable/sortable.html
+++ b/demos/draggable/sortable.html
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 			revert: true
 		});
 		$("#draggable").draggable({
-			connectToSortable: ['#sortable'],
+			connectToSortable: '#sortable',
 			helper: 'clone',
 			revert: 'invalid'
 		});
diff --git a/ui/ui.draggable.js b/ui/ui.draggable.js
index 199de6152..e8524679b 100644
--- a/ui/ui.draggable.js
+++ b/ui/ui.draggable.js
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ $.ui.plugin.add("draggable", "connectToSortable", {
 		$(o.connectToSortable).each(function() {
 			// 'this' points to a string, and should therefore resolved as query, but instead, if the string is assigned to a variable, it loops through the strings properties,
 			// so we have to append '' to make it anonymous again
-			$(this+'').each(function() {
+			$(typeof this == 'string' ? this+'': this).each(function() {
 				if($.data(this, 'sortable')) {
 					var sortable = $.data(this, 'sortable');
 					inst.sortables.push({