[thelist] Quick JS question - x and y position of an image

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 24 01:40:01 CST 2003


>In Javascript, how can I find the x and y position of an image in a
>document? I want to do this so that I can have a floating layer appear
>below
>it as a rollover action, i.e. something like
>
>	var myLayer = document.getElementById('my_layer');
>	myLayer.style.left = x_coordinate_of_image;
>	myLayer.style.top = y_coordinate_of_image + 50;
>	myLayer.style.visibility = "visible";
>
>It looks like I can use offsetHeight and offsetLeft to do what I want in
>Internet Explorer, but how do I do it in Netscape?

See http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html?findpos.html

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