Brandon, >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.
I never said it was a problem--just that the dimensions plug-in lacked anything for calculating this relative positioning issue. In my case, I could clone the element. I was moving the location of a textarea element and needed the cursor to stay put as well as keep it's tab index--so I had to actually manipulate textarea element itself. I was just saying it would have been nice if there was a built-in function for calculating relative parent offsets. :) -Dan
