Please tell me how to write the equivalnt of the below code

<ul id="sortable1" class="connectedSortable">
  <li class="ui-state-default">Item 1</li>
  <li class="ui-state-default">Item 2</li>
  <li class="ui-state-default">Item 3</li>
  <li class="ui-state-default">Item 4</li>
  <li class="ui-state-default">Item 5</li>
</ul>

I think using datalist is a possible solution

<apex:dataList value="{!fields}" var="fls" id="sortable1" styleClass="connectedSortable">
        <apex:outputText value="{!fls.key}" id="sortable1" styleClass="connectedSortable"/>
 </apex:dataList>

but I am unable to call jquery using the following code.