how to get bounding box for div element in jquery

Question

i want to calculate bounding box for div element via jquery/javascript.

i tried like this .

//Left side of box 
document.getElementById(\"myElement\").of         


        

Answer 1

using JQuery:

myelement=$("#myelement")
[myelement.offset().left, myelement.offset().top,  myelement.width(), myelement.height()]