Hi Daz,
It works like that, the event bubbles from A -> LI -> UL <- and here we catch it. The widget processes all the internal elements because there might be some formatting in there, images and so on.
In order to make it work you have to either add an "onclick" attribute directly to your A, or (which is better) use the `handleCss` option to specify elements that should be used as the handler, kind like this
http://rightjs.org/ui/sortable/demo#custom then events from your links will fall through to the document where it will be caught by the browser or your UJS handlers.