# Playing with the different methods to get the column a panel belongs to.

this.serializePanels = function () {
        var result = [];
        $("div.panels_column", this).each(function (colIdx) {
            $("div.panels_panel", this).each(function (sequence) {
              var panel = {
                "id" : $(this).attr("id"),
//                "column" : colIdx,
                "column" : $(this).parents(".panels_column").prevAll().length,
                "position" : sequence,
                "collapsed" : ($("div.panels_min", this).hasClass("panels_collapsed")) ? true : false
              };
              result.push(panel);
            });
        });
        return result;
      }