Question

Say i’ve an value x = 100 and y = 26 with a div height and width equal to 500.

How do i place a text in that x and y co ordinate ?

What is the in built method that does this ?

x=Math.floor(Math.random()*500);
y=Math.floor(Math.random()*500);

I’ve to place text in this x and y co ordinates.
Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming you want to add a new element at a particular position in another element.
You can do this by setting css properties using .css function in jQuery.

function addText(txt, x, y) {
    $('<div>').css({
        left: x,
        top: y
    }).html(txt).appendTo('#container');
}

addText("Hello", 50, 100);

container element should have position:relative and child elements should have position:absolute in css

jsfiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/p5QSd/