You can very easily add these helper methods to your own app like this:
jQuery.fn.left = function() {
return this.offset({scroll:false}).left;
};
jQuery.fn.top = function() {
return this.offset({scroll:false}).top;
};
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Brandon Aaron
On 8/28/07, Olivier Percebois-Garve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm doing a lot of jQuery today so please pardon me if I'm sending
> too much emails here.
>
> I'm annoyed with the (otherwise great) dimension plugin because there is
> no direct way to get the top
> and left position of an element.
> So all over my code I have things such as :
>
> $errorBoxOffset = {};
> element.offset({scroll: false}, $errorBoxOffset);
> $left = $errorBoxOffset.left;
> $top = $errorBoxOffset.top;
>
>
> Have I missed something in the dimension doc ?
> Do you think it would make sense to add such functions to the dimensions
> plugin ?
>
> -Olivier
>
>
