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