How to set top position using jquery

Question

I am creating custom div scroller and want to set top position of content div. My jquery code is as below:

containerOuterHeight=$(\"#messagePopUpContainer\").out         


        

Answer 1

Just for reference, if you are using:

 $(el).offset().top 

To get the position, it can be affected by the position of the parent element. Thus you may want to be consistent and use the following to set it:

$(el).offset({top: pos});

As opposed to the CSS methods above.