[Javascript] Finding element at coordinates

[King Chung Huang]

Thanks to everyone that tried to answer. I couldn't find a way to do it 
cross platform either (short of stepping through the entire DOM tree 
manually).

King Chung Huang
Learning Commons
University of Calgary

On May 17, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:

>
>
>>> Is there a way to find out what element is at a location on a page? 
>>> For example, find what's at the location (100px, 200px) from the 
>>> top-left corner of the body?
>>
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/js/findpos.html
>
> Sorry, I misread your question. My script does the opposite of what 
> you want: it finds the coordinates of a given object.
>
> I *think* there's an IE only property that contains the info you want 
> (search MSDN), but I don't think there's a cross-browser script that 
> does what you want.
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