Question

I have this line to add a new element in the screen, but the absolute position is not working.

Javascript

function drawElement(e,name){   
    $("#canvas").append("<div id='" + name + "' class='element'"
    + "left="+e.pageX+" top=" + e.pageY +">"
    + name
    +"</div>");
}

CSS

.element{
    display:inline-block;
    background:blue;
    position:absolute;  
}

What I doing wrong?

1. List item

Answer 1

    function drawElement(e,name){   
        div = $("<div />")
            div.attr("id", name);
            div.attr("class", 'element')
            div.css("top", e.pageY)
            div.css("left", e.pageX)
            div.html(name)

            $("#canvas").append(div)
    }

Update: from comment below (didn’t know you could do that!) 🙂

    function drawElement(e,name){   
        div = $("<div />")
        div.attr({id: name, class: 'element'});
        div.css({top: e.pageY, left: e.pageX})
        div.html(name)
                $("#canvas").append(div)
    }