@Steven: It is in several browsers that I have tested, IE, Firefox, Safari on XP. I can provide a more complete bug report if it is indeed considered a bug. However, it sounds like, as Brandon has stated, that this may not be considered as such.
@Brandon: I suppose I can see that rationale. On Sep 1, 8:15 pm, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I've been thinking about this and it is actually somewhat of an > ambiguous use-case. Most things in HTML/CSS are usually considered > from their left most and top most sides (bounding box) when thinking > ofposition/dimensions. However, I see the reasoning and desire to > handle this inline element differently. Unfortunately the solution > isn't very simple and doesn't translate well to the offset > andpositionmethods. In other words, offset andpositionare strictly for > calculating the bounding poxposition. For this particular use-case of > knowing where the text begins within the bounding box you'll need to > use the workaround you suggested. > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Nikola<gavin.b.ly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I believe I may have found an issue with theposition() method. > > > When getting an element.position().left property using jQuery, if a > > link is long enough that it wraps down to another line, the property > > will be thrown off. Instead of getting the left of where the link > > itself starts, it will instead get the left of thepositionwhere the > > bounding rectangle of the entire link would end up. > > > example here: > >http://gavinlynch.name/algorithms/javascript/link_position.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
