Exact Location of an Element

[Brett Foster]

This must have been covered a million times, but I'll be damned if I can
find the right information. Right now I'm using the following code:

This is a function to recusively calculate the absolute position of an
object (because you can't do it directly?):

SomeObject.prototype.__calcOffset__ = function (node) {
if (node && node.offsetTop)
return node.offsetTop + this.__calcOffset__(node.offsetParent);
else
return 0;
}

The problem is that while it worked in a simple layout it's not working
well in other layouts. Any ideas?

Brett

 

[Fred Oz]

This must have been covered a million times, but I'll be damned if I can
find the right information. Right now I'm using the following code:

This is a function to recusively calculate the absolute position of an
object (because you can't do it directly?):

SomeObject.prototype.__calcOffset__ = function (node) {
if (node && node.offsetTop)
return node.offsetTop + this.__calcOffset__(node.offsetParent);
else
return 0;
}

The problem is that while it worked in a simple layout it's not working
well in other layouts. Any ideas?

Brett

Have a look here:

<URL:http://www.quirksmode.org/js/findpos.html>

and play with offsetParent.