Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xiaolei Li wrote:
>
>> hi, i'm writing an app that needs the coordinates of DOM elements.
>> given some DOM node (image, text, table, etc.) and the rendered page,
>> i'd like to find out the coordinate of the upper-left hand corner and
>> the width/height of the node.  is there API to do this?  thank you.
>
> Coordinates relative to what? Are you in JS, C++ or a web page?

relative to the upper left hand corner of the webpage, which i guess is
(0, 0).  basically, it's as if i took a screenshot of the rendered page
and wanted to know the coordinates of everything.  i'm doing this in
C++.

> You could call getComputedStyle and look at the top and left
> properties, which I believe are the offsets in px relative to the
> containing box.

cool.  thank you.


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