Addition to "top" not happiening

[sheldonlg]

I define a div, excItem, with absolute positioning and with a top of
400px. I then call a javascript function which does toggling of
visibility and should do positioning as well. I loop though the parents
with offsetTop to get the position of the clicking element, which here
is set in "y".

Here is the code snippet:

excItem.style.t op = y + 20;
alert('y=' + y + ' top=' + excItem.style.t op);

The resulting alert give a value of 677 for y and 400px for
excItem.style.t op.

Does anyone have any ideas on why this might be happening.

Notes:
1 - The excItem is defined as is evident from the alert.
2 - This worked fine in a test app I wrote.

[Captain Paralytic]

Re: Addition to "top&qu ot; not happiening

On 28 Feb, 15:47, sheldonlg <sheldonlgwrote :

I define a div, excItem, with absolute positioning and with a top of
400px. I then call a javascript function which does toggling of
visibility and should do positioning as well. I loop though the parents
with offsetTop to get the position of the clicking element, which here
is set in "y".
>
Here is the code snippet:
>
excItem.style.t op = y + 20;
alert('y=' + y + ' top=' + excItem.style.t op);
>
The resulting alert give a value of 677 for y and 400px for
excItem.style.t op.
>
Does anyone have any ideas on why this might be happening.
>
Notes:
1 - The excItem is defined as is evident from the alert.
2 - This worked fine in a test app I wrote.

possibly because the top property wants something like:

(y + 20)+'px';