You can use either the css method:
if you want to know the height of $("#TheDivInQuestion")
Then $("#TheDivInQuestion").css("height");
If you need another attribute of the css just change de parameter of
the "css": $("#TheDivInQuestion").css("top"); $
("#TheDivInQuestion").css("left"); ...
On 9 feb, 14:00, Paul Hutson <hutsonphu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a(nother?) new person to Jquery and have found it to be
> *excellent* so far (when I say that I may be understating how damned
> awesome it is!!)
>
> There is only one thing that has been bothering me - I can't seem to
> find a way of finding a position of an item with an easy Jquery
> shortcut.
>
> i.e. to find out the style.top value of an element, I have to use the
> following :
>
> document.getElementById("TheDivInQuestion").style.top
>
> Am I missing something that does this with something like : $
> ("#TheDivInQuestion").top or $("#TheDivInQuestion").style.top :?
>
> (both of which don't work for me..)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Hutson
