when i call the getAbsoluteLeft/Top method i always get 0 in firefox. For the IE i get a value which seems to be correct. Are there known problems using these methods ? My problem is that i want to set the position of an element with the absolute position values of another element. Thanks in advance. Edit: Using GWT 2.0.3
kuku
EDIT Testcase:
1. The host page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Web Application Starter Project</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="samplegwt/samplegwt.nocache.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function execute() {
var element = document.getElementById("paragraph");
if (element != undefined)
element.style.display = "block";
}
</script>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
#paragraph {
display: none;
}
</STYLE>
</head>
<body class="body" onload="execute()">
<div align="center">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p id="paragraph">
<input type="text" id="example" value="Foobar" > <a href="#"><img border="0" src="images/some.gif" alt="Test"></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In the onModuleLoad() i simply do this: System.out.println(Document.get().getElementById("paragraph")
.getAbsoluteLeft());
Well as stated in the comments the problem was that the element is not visible which results into 2 different behavoirs for IE and FF.