Get real position of objects in Javascript with Chrome

Question

I\'ve been coding a bit of Javascript to place a ducky randomly on this page.

I wanted to make it hide on the side of objects (like the posts), but I ended up having to

Answer 1

That does not work with absolute positioning because it does not factor in top and left (among other things).

I was going to rip out that part of code from jQuery and post it here, but it is too rooted. So I just have to recommend using jQuery! To do so, just have this in the markup (before any other script tags)...

Once you have that referenced, you can get the position of an element so easily...

$(function() {
  var pos = $(".className").position();
  alert(pos.top + "\n" + pos.left);
});