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[Slightly Wonky Robob]

This is starting to drive me crazy... all I want to do is find the absolute position of an element, and it is perfectly possible and easy in every browser except IE. Whatever I try 0 is returned. Here is the code that I thiefed off of tinternet:

function findPosX(obj)
{
var curleft = 0;
if(obj.offsetParent)
	while(1) 
	{
	  curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
	  if(!obj.offsetParent)
		break;
	  obj = obj.offsetParent;
	}
else if(obj.x)
	curleft += obj.x;
return curleft;
}

function findPosY(obj)
{
var curtop = 0;
if(obj.offsetParent)
	while(1)
	{
	  curtop += obj.offsetTop;
	  if(!obj.offsetParent)
		break;
	  obj = obj.offsetParent;
	}
else if(obj.y)
	curtop += obj.y;
return curtop;
}

Anyone got any ideas of how to make this work in IE?

[Teron]

The only possiblity I see here of returning "0" is when "obj.offsetParent == false" and (obj.x or obj.y) is false.
Does that help?

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Well I know/knew that at least one thing was wrong, but the problem is I don't know what the IE equivalent(s) is.

Edited by Bob, 23 October 2008 - 23:38.