Question

I have a overflow:auto container that spans 400% width of the document window. Therefore I have a horizontal scrollbar on my page. I also have multiple div’s inside this container with different left positions. I need to get the left position of each container as I click on them. I use $(this).offset().left but that gives me the left offset of the container div which is 0px and I’ve used $(this).position().left but that gives me the same thing…. any suggestions?

Markup looks like this:

<div id='scroll'>
 <div id='content'>
   <div class='container' rel='1'></div>
   <div class='container' rel='2'></div>
   <div class='container' rel='3'></div>
   <div class='container' rel='4'></div>
 </div>
</div>

css

#scroll{
   position:absolute;
   width:100%;
   height:95%;
   overflow:auto;
   }
#content{
   float:left;
   height:100%;
}
.container{
   height:100%;
   float:left;
   }

jquery

 var iMaxSize = $(".container").size();
 $("#content").css({width: $(document).width()*iMaxSize +'px' });
 $(".container").css({width: $("#content").width()/iMaxSize +'px' });

Answer 1

Since for some reason I still can’t get .offset() to work the way it should, or scrollLeft(). I just decided to do this a very round about way.

 $('.container').click(function(){
     var num = parseInt( $(this).attr('rel') );
     var left = $('.container').width() * num-1;
     var top  = $('.container').css('top');
     //do something with these values
 });