Safari offsetParent/offsetLeft Problem!

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  • ara.pehlivanian@gmail.com
    #1

    Safari offsetParent/offsetLeft Problem!

    I've got a script that determines the true position of an element in
    the page by cycling up the .offsetParent elements all the way up to the
    <body> element and tallying up the .offsetLeft values returned by each
    element. It works fine on the major browsers (IE, Moz, NS) on PC but
    Safari on the Mac returns "0" for the offsetLeft right off the body tag
    when it should be a greater value than that.
    Anybody already deal with this?

    Thank you in advance!
    Ara

    Tags: offsetleft safari, safari offsetleft
    • Martin Honnen
      #2
      Re: Safari offsetParent/offsetLeft Problem!



      ara.pehlivanian @gmail.com wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > I've got a script that determines the true position of an element in
      > the page by cycling up the .offsetParent elements all the way up to the
      > <body> element and tallying up the .offsetLeft values returned by each
      > element. It works fine on the major browsers (IE, Moz, NS) on PC but
      > Safari on the Mac returns "0" for the offsetLeft right off the body tag
      > when it should be a greater value than that.[/color]

      You should not stop at the <body> element but walk up offsetParent till
      it is null. Perhaps with Safari the <html> element adds an offset. Just
      a guess however, I haven't looked into that with Safari now.


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        • ara.pehlivanian@gmail.com
          #3
          Re: Safari offsetParent/offsetLeft Problem!

          Hi Martin,

          Thanks for the reply. The thing is, I was using .parentNode to cycle
          through all the elements but that was returning very strange results
          since not all parent nodes affected the offset of their children.
          However by using .offsetParent I was able to get only those who
          affected the offset of their children. I say this because using the
          ..parentNode method, I was able to get all the way up past the <body>,
          past <html> all the way to <#document>. But this way I can't.

          Besides, I don't even think it would help since Safari reports the
          offset differently than IE, Mozilla and NS using the same code. :-(

          Ara

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            • Fred Oz
              #4
              Re: Safari offsetParent/offsetLeft Problem!

              ara.pehlivanian @gmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
              > Hi Martin,
              >
              > Thanks for the reply. The thing is, I was using .parentNode to cycle
              > through all the elements but that was returning very strange results
              > since not all parent nodes affected the offset of their children.
              > However by using .offsetParent I was able to get only those who
              > affected the offset of their children. I say this because using the
              > ..parentNode method, I was able to get all the way up past the <body>,
              > past <html> all the way to <#document>. But this way I can't.
              >
              > Besides, I don't even think it would help since Safari reports the
              > offset differently than IE, Mozilla and NS using the same code. :-([/color]

              Have you had a look here?

              <URL:http://www.quirksmode. org/index.html?/viewport/compatibility.h tml>

              It's not specific to Safari, but it offers some good tips and hints.

              --
              Fred

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