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Get Absolute Position

Published in: JavaScript 

URL: http://fromvega.com/wordpress/2007/07/14/easydrag-jquery-plugin/#comment-754

Returns absolute position of given object. Specially for crap-IE that do not detects correctly the .offset* attribute.

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  1. function getPos (obj) {
  2. 	var output = new Object();
  3. 	var mytop=0, myleft=0;
  4. 	while( obj) {
  5. 		mytop+= obj.offsetTop;
  6. 		myleft+= obj.offsetLeft;
  7. 		obj= obj.offsetParent;
  8. 	}
  9. 	output.left = myleft;
  10. 	output.top = mytop;
  11. 	return output;
  12. }

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