Megan Garrison

Hi - I am So hoping you can help

I have a javascript menu that requires x y positioning. The code to call
it looks like this: 

<script>showPermPanel("MyMenu", 100, 120) </script> 
(e.g.<script>showPermPanel("Name", x, y) </script>) 

The problem is that I am using tables and I need the menu to be relative
to a certain table cell position and that cell position is different
depending on screen size/resolution. 

I am trying to correct this by using a bit of javascript to write the
x/y position relative to an image in the table cell, but the new x & y
positions are not being written with the correct offset (that I can
tell) & evidently IE has a problem with it giving 0,0, coordinates when
an image is nested inside a table. 

here is where I am so far: 

<div id='tdiv'><img src="images/shim.gif" 
width="1" height="1" alt=""></div> 
<script> 
onresize = function() { location.reload()} 
obj = document.getElementById('tdiv'); 
x = 120;                         /* x-coordinate of marker */ 
y = 170;                         /* y-coordinate of marker */ 
while (obj) { 
     x = x + obj.offsetLeft; 
     y = y + obj.offsetTop; 
     obj = obj.offsetParent; 
} 
document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT>' + 'showPermPanel(' + '"XP",'+ x + ',' + y
+')<\/SCR' + 'IPT>'); 

</script> 

I do not know javascript except to tinker with already written scripts
and I am having trouble tinkering with this one.  the original I was
trying to modify is: 

<br> 
<table border=1> 
  <tr> 
    <td> 
      Some Text 
    </td> 
    <td> 
      <div id='tdiv' style='background-color:#abcdef;'>Marker</div> 
    </td> 
  </tr> 
</table> 



<script> 
onresize = function() { location.reload()} 
obj = document.getElementById('tdiv'); 
x = 0;                         /* x-coordinate of marker */ 
y = 0;                         /* y-coordinate of marker */ 
while (obj) { 
     x = x + obj.offsetLeft; 
     y = y + obj.offsetTop; 
     obj = obj.offsetParent; 
} 
alert("Marker is at position " + x + "," + y); 
</script> 

any help would be appreciated 

thanks, Megan

Hi again - please disregard my previous email - turns out I just had the
script in the wrong place - it was inside the same table cell as the div
so of course it didn't cycle through all the parents, when I put it
outside all table tags at the bottom of the page just before the /body
it worked perfectly   - (ok one day well spent :P) 

Regards, megan