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| From | Tim Romano |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | possible to get Left position of a relatively positioned Element ? |
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| Date | 21 May 04 22:31 |
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Hi.
Thanks for the great site!
If I have an anchor element inside a table cell --
<TD ID='cell2'><A ID='anchor99'>my anchor</a></TD>
is there any way to *get* the LEFT value for either element as it is
currently displayed in the browser window? They're not positioned
absolutely.
Regards
Tim
| From | Me |
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| To | Tim Romano |
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| Subject | Re: possible to get Left position of a relatively positioned Element ? |
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| Date | 21 May 2004 23:23 |
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Tim,
yes, this is in fact fairly easy. I have documented how to do this on
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/browserspecific
You need to call the findPosition function, passing it a reference to the
anchor. You have used an ID, not a name, so I will assume that you want
this to work in all modern browsers.
function findPosition( oLink ) {
if( oLink.offsetParent ) {
for(var posX=0,posY=0;oLink.offsetParent;oLink=oLink.offsetParent) {
posX += oLink.offsetLeft;
posY += oLink.offsetTop;
}
return [ posX, posY ];
} else {
return [ oLink.x, oLink.y ];
}
}
var leftTop = findPosition(document.getElementById('anchor99'));
var leftPos = leftTop[0], topPos = leftTop[1];
Hope this helps
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Tim Romano |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: possible to get Left position of a relatively positioned Element ? |
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| Date | 22 May 04 00:13 |
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Mark,
Beautiful! Thanks so much for the lightning reply. You have given me the
gift of a weekend! Enjoy yours.
Tim