/* JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition by Danny Goodman
John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001 */
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>offsetParent Property</TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> function setImagePosition(){ var cElement = document.all.myCell // Set flag for whether calculations should use // client- or offset- property measures. Use // client- for IE5/Mac and IE4/Windows; otherwise // use offset- properties. An ugly, but necessary // workaround. var useClient = (cElement.offsetTop == 0) ? ((cElement.offsetParent.tagName == "TR") ? false : true) : false if (useClient) { var x = cElement.clientLeft var y = cElement.clientTop } else { var x = cElement.offsetLeft var y = cElement.offsetTop } var pElement = document.all.myCell.offsetParent while (pElement != document.body) { if (useClient) { x += pElement.clientLeft y += pElement.clientTop } else { x += pElement.offsetLeft y += pElement.offsetTop } pElement = pElement.offsetParent } document.all.myDIV.style.pixelLeft = x document.all.myDIV.style.pixelTop = y document.all.myDIV.style.visibility = "visible" } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY onload="setImagePosition()"> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> </SCRIPT> <H1>The offsetParent Property</H1> <HR> <P>After the document loads, the script positions a small image in the upper left corner of the second table cell.</P> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN="center"> <TR> <TD>This is the first cell</TD> <TD ID="myCell">This is the second cell.</TD> </TR> </TABLE> <DIV ID="myDIV" STYLE="position:absolute; visibility:hidden; height:12; width:12"> <IMG SRC="http://www.navioo.com/style/logo.png" HEIGHT=12 WIDTH=12></DIV> </BODY> </HTML>
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