offsetleft gives you dist from parent, but what if you want relative to whole page?

[x_goose_x]

Pretty much what’s in the title. element.offsetLeft tells you the horizontal distance of an element relative to it's parent element, but once there is a hierarchy of children, it gets annoying adding up all the offsets. How do you determine the offset directly, without going through the parent elements. Thanx.

-x_goose_x

[beetle]

Dont' know. but it shouldn't be that hard to code up a function that will get the offset of any object passed to it....

[Roy Sinclair]

Try looking at left and pixelLeft.

[brothercake]

What you need is a recursive function; check out http://www.webreference.com/js/column33/image.html

[x_goose_x]

Thats what I figured. Just wondering if there was a direct weay of doing it. Thanks brothercake.

[jkd]

Gecko:

document.getBoxObjectFor(element).x

is the offset from the left edge from the page. screenX is from the screen.

For compatibility, I generally use:

function getLeft(node) {
var temp = node;
var left = parseInt(node.offsetLeft);
while (temp = temp.parentNode && temp.offsetLeft)
left += parseInt(temp.offsetLeft);
return left;
}

Or something like that (not one I pulled off my hdd, just something I typed here, may or may not be entirely correct).