Getting absolute coordinates from a DOM element - Tales from the Evil Empire - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Apr 10
  

  yurenju

  xul

• 08 Sep 09
  

  Bruno Ferreira

  Getting absolute coordinates from a DOM element

  webdev ajax javascript dom coordinates

  • Problem is, it's very important to get those coordinates for applications such as drag and drop, or whenever you need to compare coordinates of elements that may be in completely different parts of the document.
  • but it proved to be one of the most difficult problems we had to solve.
  • every single browser has its own coordinate quirks
  • We also had to implement a pretty complex test suite to verify our algorithms for thousands of combinations of block or inline elements, offsets, scroll positions, frame containment, borders, etc.,

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• 12 Jul 08
  

  Zarko Bizaca

  javascript dom coordinates

• 20 May 08
  

  ratbeard

  html standards

• 12 Feb 08
  

  asinowl

  javascript programming web dom development bleroy Delicious

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