Multidrag: Prevent deselect on click

[twilson90]

I have a sortable with MultiDrag enabled.
I have 2 buttons 'Add' and 'Remove'
I want to be able to select multiple items and then click 'Remove', to remove the selected items, however as soon as I click on the Remove button, before my click handler runs the items are deselected.
I generally just want my selected items to remain selected when I click outside the draggable context.
How do I do it?

[chrisyeung1121]

same issue. hoping to get support or an API for it.

[nikkii94]

Do you have any workaround for this?

[mnelson4]

duplicate of #1612

The solution looks to be to prevent the deselect early using this code snippet: #1612 (comment)