Question

Html

<div id="video"></div>
<p class="coordspls">Too much overflow!</p>

Pseudo Code:

Get x position of .coordspls save to cox
Get y position of .coordspls save to coy

Set x position of #video to cox
Set y position of #video to coy

Answer 1

.offset() takes a setter as well, the same object format as it returns, so you can do this:

$("#video").css({ position: 'absolute' }).offset($("p.coordspls").offset());

You can give it a try here, all this does it make sure the position is absolute (remove the .css() call if this is already the case), then sets the top and left to match.