Look at Mootools Docs: http://mootools.net/docs/core/Element/Element.Dimensions
or http://mootools.net/docs/more/Element/Element.Measure I don't know how you could accomplish getting the x/y position of something from the mouse without somehow referencing some object. On Jun 14, 11:05 am, brook <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All - Is there a smart way to get the position of a mouse-event > relative to to div? in this example: > > http://jsfiddle.net/E3gp8/ > > If you click on on the green square from the event you can get its > client/page.x but what i really want is the the position of the click > event with respect to the "inner" div. obviously i could subtract off > the left value of the "container" + the left value of the "inner" div. > but i want it to be as flexible as possible so it doesn´t matter the > structure of the dom that it is placed in. > > If not is there a way to get the value of the x-position of a div... > so in this case the "container" has left=50px and the the "inner" has > left=50 but is there away to get the left value relative to the page > of the inner div (in this case 50+50 = 100). Again I want to get this > info without referencing the containing div or divs so that its as > flexible as possible.
