[jQuery] Re: Getting background-position

2007-11-27 Thread DaveG
Thanks for the information -- I would never have considered looking at FF for the bug. ~ ~ David Karl Rudd wrote: Actually "background" is the "shorthand" property, "backgroundPostion" is the "fully qualified" property. There is/was a bug in Firefox: Bug 316981 – background-position pro

[jQuery] Re: Getting background-position

2007-11-27 Thread Karl Rudd
Actually "background" is the "shorthand" property, "backgroundPostion" is the "fully qualified" property. There is/was a bug in Firefox: Bug 316981 – background-position property is not available through the CSS DOM interface https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316981 Karl Rudd On

[jQuery] Re: Getting background-position

2007-11-27 Thread Richard D. Worth
This is what css calls a shorthand property. It's used for setting. Browsers differ in their treatment of it as a getter. jQuery doesn't (yet) normalize this. See these threads for more info: element.css("background") returns undefined http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/

[jQuery] Re: Getting background-position

2007-11-27 Thread Karl Swedberg
Weird. That must be a bug. You can set the background position... $('.XXX').css('backgroundPosition', '0 50%'); and then get it ... $('.XXX').css('backgroundPosition'); // returns "0pt 50%" but you can't get it without setting first. Hmmm. --Karl _ Karl S

[jQuery] Re: Getting background-position

2007-11-27 Thread DaveG
DaveG wrote: How do I get the background-position? $('.XXX').css("background_position"); $('.XXX').css("background-position"); $('.XXX').css("backgroundPosition"); ...do not work. Other variants like "background-color" work fine. The problem seems to be that I'm trying to get the background