Sure thing. You can get at the separate offsets (top and left) like so:
$('#my-id').offset().top;
$('#my-id').offset().left;
I hope that's what you were looking for. If not, let me know.
--Karl
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:53 PM, rolfsf wrote:
thanks Karl - I've looked through dimensions.jsand being a newbie... I still don't understand how to use offset when I onlywant one dimension (e.g. y position) a little hint, maybe, and I'll be on my way Karl Swedberg-2 wrote:Hi Rolf, By far the easiest way to do that is to use the Dimensions plugin. It is amazingly accurate, even taking into account borders, padding, overflow:scroll, etc. http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins The inline documentation is quite helpful as well. --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:46 PM, rolfsf wrote:I want to find the position of the top of a div (distance from top ofwindow), so I can calculate and set the height of another div. How can I get that? I'm a little confused as to how to use offset, which returns values for both x and y. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/finding-y- position-tf3399556.html#a9466593 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/_______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/--View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/finding-y- position-tf3399556.html#a9467686Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
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