I agree with Brandon - you are usually better off wrapping your content in a #wrapper div. Also, I'm not sure why you need to do this programatically. With your current code, set position:relative on the body tag - now you should be able to absolutely position any child of the body tag treating the upper left corner of the body as 0,0.
christoph On Apr 8, 8:04 pm, "Brandon Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And actually dealing with the body tag and getting its offset can be a > pain. Especially if you use position instead of just margin. I would > suggest using a div to center your content. > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On 4/8/07, PragueExpat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The body of my page is centered. It is 800px in width. I have a div that I > > need to be absolutely positioned over the body, so I am trying to get the > > left position of the (centered) body tag using the dimensions.js offset > > method. > > > In IE I get the correct left position, but in FF I get 0. > > > When I ask for the left position of the first element in the body, IE says 0 > > while FF gives the correct number (even taking into account the centered > > body). > > > $(window).width() does work in both browsers, so I could use that to figure > > out where the centered body is, but I was just wondering if others have had > > success finding the position of a centered body tag. > > > Thanks! > > -- > > View this message in > > context:http://www.nabble.com/dimensions-offset%28%29-and-centered-BODY-tag-t... > > Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
