getting div current placement

Question

how can i get the div's current postion with jquery or divs current placement with jquery

Answer 1

Check out the "CSS" section of the jQuery docs, in particular the #offset function.

Answer 2

var position = jQuery('#myelement').position();
alert(position.left);
alert(position.top);

Answer 3

Do you mean position on your web page? This depends on the browser you are using. They handle code in a different way sometomes...

You can check your app via Firebug in Firefox or Webdeveloper Toolbar in Internet Explorer for getting the right values.

Answer 4

try position function.

var pos=$("#ID_OF_DIV").position();

alert("TOP: " + pos.top +"\r\nLEFT: " + pos.left);