Question

im having issue with getting position of an element. there are 4divs with position relative. but and float is left. when im trying to get the left position on an element it returns null. in jquery it returns 0. can some one help me please.

Thanks,
Dakshina.

Answer 1

This should work.

var el = document.getElementById(<id>);
var left=0, top=0;
do {
  left += el.offsetLeft;
  top += el.offsetTop;
}while(el = el.offsetParent);

// ‘left’ and ‘top’ will give you the x,y position.