To get the top and or left position of an element do the following:
var position = $('#item1').position();
Now position.top is equal to the top and position.left is equal to the left.
So if I wanted to assign the top position to another variable I could do it
like this.
var top = position.top;
If you only needed the top you could simply just do the following.
var top = $('#item1').position().top;
Here are the docs for dimensions 1.2:
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/dimensions
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Brandon Aaron
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:04 AM, bdee1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> i'm sorry i still dotn think i follow entirely.
>
> so if i had an div element with an id of item1. and i wanted to get the
> position of it.
>
> the dimensions documentation says i would do:
> var position = {};
> $("#myElement").position(position);
>
> so then in this example it should be:
> $("#item1").position(position);
>
> then to access the top position, i woudl do the following?
> $("#item1").offset().top
>
> is that correct?
>
>
>
> Karl Swedberg-2 wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Since it returns an object, you can use either dot notation or bracket
> > notation. So, to get the top position of an element, you could do
> > this ...
> >
> > $(element).offset().top
> >
> > or this ...
> >
> > $(element).offset()['top']
> >
> > hope that helps.
> >
> > --Karl
> > _________________
> > Karl Swedberg
> > www.englishrules.com
> > www.learningjquery.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 1, 2008, at 3:56 PM, bdee1 wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> i am a little unclear on how exactly to get the position of an
> >> element using
> >> jquery dimensions plugin.
> >>
> >> documentation says it returns "An object with top and left
> >> properties that
> >> are numbers representing the offset in pixels."
> >>
> >> and it says the object looks like this:
> >> { top: 10, left: 10 }
> >>
> >> so how do i access it? like a string? do i have to use string
> >> functions to
> >> pull out the height and width individually?
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