Question

How can it be that this doesn’t alert 0 (instead, it alerts 50)?

I need the td position relative to the table

http://jsfiddle.net/vxVCE/

HTML:

<div style="height:40px"></div>
<div>
    <table id="tbl">
        <tr>
            <td id="td1">linje 1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td id="td2">linje 2</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

JS:

var elm = $('#td1');
var position = elm.position();
alert(position.top);

edit:
I need the tr position relative to the table 🙂

Answer 1

Add position: relative; to the table. Doing that will make it alert 0. Otherwise, it’s finding position relative to the document.