IE7 has a bug regarding the offsetLeft.
It always returns 0 even if the element is not at left:0.
Well to be fair the element is at left:0 with respect to it's parent element...but the element is not actually at left:0 because some parent (or grand parent...) element has a style that positions the element away from the left side of the page.
**sigh**
This has made a mess, once again, of my JavaScript and my server control code too because I had to add code that exposes the ID of the parent/grandparent element that is being directly effected by the positioning move.
This bug does not exist in IE8... nice of them to fix it...but at the same time the fix is useless to me since I have to support 7.
Anyways, what I'm trying to do is pretty straightforward .
I want to display a <div> with a position:absolu te style over top of the content that is being processed so that the user doesn't try to do something with data that is being worked on.
The thing is that the <div> that is displayed over top of the content is within another <div> that has a position:absolu te style. This is so that the parent div can cover up the ASP.NET control that the the "blocker" control is "attached to".
I recently found a case where I wanted to use 1 of these blockers for more than one ASP.NET control....so that means it's not "attached to" anything.
Originally I had the control cover the entire page but decided that the buttons at the top (that let the user access help or logout) shouldn't be covered....and neither should the page's logo section at the top of the page.
So I just wanted to cover the "content" section of the page. This seemed easy enough because the page's content is within a <div> and I know the ID of the div...all I had to do was move the <div> that blocked the content over top of the main "content" section and expand it's width and height to match it.
Easy enough except the fact that the parent <div> of the blocker <div> has the position:absolu te style....fine I can get a reference to the this div to.
So I decided to move the parent <div> so that is over top of the main content section of the page.
This is where the offsetLeft property is really messing me up...
Even if I retrieve the main "content" section's offsetLeft property it's Not Right...and I don't know why.
I removed all padding and margin styles from the content section and it's still off by (I don't know) 10 or so pixels.
Anyone have any ideas on why the offsetLeft property in IE7 is always wrong...and how I can get around the problem?
-Frinny
It always returns 0 even if the element is not at left:0.
Well to be fair the element is at left:0 with respect to it's parent element...but the element is not actually at left:0 because some parent (or grand parent...) element has a style that positions the element away from the left side of the page.
**sigh**
This has made a mess, once again, of my JavaScript and my server control code too because I had to add code that exposes the ID of the parent/grandparent element that is being directly effected by the positioning move.
This bug does not exist in IE8... nice of them to fix it...but at the same time the fix is useless to me since I have to support 7.
Anyways, what I'm trying to do is pretty straightforward .
I want to display a <div> with a position:absolu te style over top of the content that is being processed so that the user doesn't try to do something with data that is being worked on.
The thing is that the <div> that is displayed over top of the content is within another <div> that has a position:absolu te style. This is so that the parent div can cover up the ASP.NET control that the the "blocker" control is "attached to".
I recently found a case where I wanted to use 1 of these blockers for more than one ASP.NET control....so that means it's not "attached to" anything.
Originally I had the control cover the entire page but decided that the buttons at the top (that let the user access help or logout) shouldn't be covered....and neither should the page's logo section at the top of the page.
So I just wanted to cover the "content" section of the page. This seemed easy enough because the page's content is within a <div> and I know the ID of the div...all I had to do was move the <div> that blocked the content over top of the main "content" section and expand it's width and height to match it.
Easy enough except the fact that the parent <div> of the blocker <div> has the position:absolu te style....fine I can get a reference to the this div to.
So I decided to move the parent <div> so that is over top of the main content section of the page.
This is where the offsetLeft property is really messing me up...
Even if I retrieve the main "content" section's offsetLeft property it's Not Right...and I don't know why.
I removed all padding and margin styles from the content section and it's still off by (I don't know) 10 or so pixels.
Anyone have any ideas on why the offsetLeft property in IE7 is always wrong...and how I can get around the problem?
-Frinny
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