April 19
Absolute Positioning Using jQuery
Using coordinates to place an abolutely postioned element on a page may seem like a bit of an overkill when you can just assign the top, bottom, right, and left values in the CSS but believe me is not. I have used this effect in combination with the Text-Resize Detection script published on A List Apart to re-position an element next to another at all times (the project demanded this effect) regardless of window or text resizing. The things you can do with this nifty trick are only limited by your imagination. Look at a demo of the “trick” at work if you wish to see it before reading the tutorial. Enough rumbling, let’s begin.
