Does the duplicate clone method of Position serve a subtle purpose that I don't understand? I feel kind of foolish even asking, but ... I just don't get it. I've been looking at this for a couple days now and as far as I can tell, the first definition is useless as it gets overlaid by the second one. I don't see any closure trickery going on here, either. I'm surprised to find something like this in what is otherwise beautiful code.
clone: function(source, target) { source = $(source); target = $(target); target.style.position = 'absolute'; var offsets = this.cumulativeOffset(source); target.style.top = offsets[1] + 'px'; target.style.left = offsets[0] + 'px'; target.style.width = source.offsetWidth + 'px'; target.style.height = source.offsetHeight + 'px'; }, clone: function(source, target) { var options = Object.extend({ setLeft: true, setTop: true, setWidth: true, setHeight: true, offsetTop: 0, offsetLeft: 0 }, arguments[2] || {}) // find page position of source source = $(source); var p = Position.page(source); // find coordinate system to use target = $(target); var delta = [0, 0]; var parent = null; // delta [0,0] will do fine with position: fixed elements, // position:absolute needs offsetParent deltas if (Element.getStyle(target,'position') == 'absolute') { parent = Position.offsetParent(target); delta = Position.page(parent); } // correct by body offsets (fixes Safari) if (parent == document.body) { delta[0] -= document.body.offsetLeft; delta[1] -= document.body.offsetTop; } // set position if(options.setLeft) target.style.left = (p[0] - delta[0] + options.offsetLeft) + 'px'; if(options.setTop) target.style.top = (p[1] - delta[1] + options.offsetTop) + 'px'; if(options.setWidth) target.style.width = source.offsetWidth + 'px'; if(options.setHeight) target.style.height = source.offsetHeight + 'px'; }, _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs