http://support.westciv.com/ Support Forum Topic: hidden element's position en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:43:56 +0000 http://support.westciv.com/topic/hidden-elements-position#post-1041 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:55:43 +0000 gt2304b 1041@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>short of making the element visible via display:block, grabbing it's position, and hiding it again right away, I haven't come up with a good way to do this.</p> <p>anyone else have any thoughts? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/hidden-elements-position#post-1025 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:48:17 +0000 Storyman 1025@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>gt2304b,</p> <p>Let the rest of us know if you a solution. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/hidden-elements-position#post-1023 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:37:16 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1023@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I honestly don't know what position an element with display none has, or whether it would be consistent across browsers. Maybe try a little javascript to see what happens in different browsers (and whether static, relative and absolute are different)</p> <p>Interesting!</p> <p>john </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/hidden-elements-position#post-1022 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:23:24 +0000 gt2304b 1022@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>kind of a strange request, but I was wondering if there was a way to access (via DOM or otherwise) the position properties of an element while it's still hidden...</p> <p>for example if I had a div element that has style: display: none -- is there a way that I could query the DOM and get the element's top and left position that it would have (if it were to be made visible later on with a display:block switch)?</p> <p>I know this is almost a javascript question, but thought I would try my luck on this support board, as I've gotten good solutions here. Thanks </p>