Topic awaiting preservation: Finding the absolute position of a staticly placed object. (Page 1 of 1)

Is there anyway to find the absolute position of a statically placed object? For instance if I have an image in a table, and I want to place an absolutly positioned image over top of that image, is there anyway I can first find out the absolute location of the statically placed object?



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Getting the left and top coordinates of anything inside a table can be a little tricky.
Actually, that's true of gettin the left and top of anything that's inside something else.
Here's a couple of functions I have found useful.
All you have to do is pass in the element that you are working with and it they will return the page left or top of it.
In your case, pass it the image you want the coordinates for.
For example document.images[image_name]

function getObjectLeft(obj){
left = obj.offsetLeft;
el = obj.offsetParent;
while(el != null){
left += el.offsetLeft;
el = el.offsetParent;
}
return left;
}

function getObjectTop(obj){
realY = obj.offsetTop;
el = obj.offsetParent;
while(el != null){
realY += el.offsetTop;
el = el.offsetParent;
}
return realY;
}

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