DHTML is a pain in the ass

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Misc.

I have to say that every time I try to do a little DHTML, I start to curse the world. I found a neat little Javascript function that finds the position of an element, which makes it handy to position another element on the page relative to that one.

It works like a champ... in IE. It doesn't work in Firefox. The weird thing is that it doesn't throw any kind of error in the Firefox Javascript console either.

Stuff like this makes it amazing to me that anyone ever gets ajax stuff to work in most browsers.

3 Comments

But that's not an acceptable solution when 30% of your user base is using Firefox. Especially when it's something that seems so relatively simple.

Jeff - Thursday, September 1, 2005 2:03:00 AM

Well the script looks as crossbrowser as it can be (considering the offsetXXX properties aren't part of the DOM standard) and I just tried it out and it works no problem in Mozilla (v1.0.6) for me.

Drew Marsh - Thursday, September 1, 2005 5:41:00 PM

Yeah, worked for me too once I tacked on "px" to the values, just as the article says you should. Next time I'll RTFM! ;)

Jeff - Thursday, September 1, 2005 8:54:00 PM

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