Yeah I think I understand what you are saying but this has absolutely nothing to do with the offset method or the dimensions plugin and everything to do with positioning and css. You could however clone the element, append to the body, set position absolute and top and left values to the element you cloned. That seems like it would get the desired effect. That is unless I'm not understanding! :)
The offset method deals only with getting the offset of the element from the top left of the document. -- Brandon Aaron On 4/16/07, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brandon, >Could you send me some example code of the problem you are having? I >can't reproduce the issue you describe. Which browser is it in? The >offset method goes to great lengths to squash browser inconsistencies >with getting the offset of an element and there are lots of them. I'm >sure I've missed a few so if you find any issues, just shoot me an >email or open a ticket. I can usually get it worked out pretty >quickly. Ok, my original description may not have been a very accurate description of the issue. The link below shows off the "issue": http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/dimension.htm When you click button, it sets the following CSS properties: position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; One might expect the Cell 2 to go to the top/left of the screen, but instead it goes to the top/left of the first parent w/a relative position. So, in order to place the element at the top/left of the screen, you'd need to offset the element w/the position of the parent w/the relative position. NOTE: You can do this by setting the Cell2 element to relative and moving to the top/left offset multiple by negative 1. However, in my case I need to move the position to absolute position. In the plug-in I was working on, I need to center an element to the viewpoint and change it's positioning to absolute. Because the element was contained in a relative div, I need to do some negative offsetting to find the true top/left of the viewpoint. So what I ended up doing is going through the parents() and looking for elements with an relative positioning and then adjusting my element accordingly. Hopefully this illustrates the problem clearly. -Dan
