Get offset

[guymclaren]

Can some one explain this to me and also how I could modify the positioning based on this or a variant thereof please.

I need to know what this is doing line by line and how to move the drop down say 65 pixels left and 85 pixels up. This is from the Drop down menu script.

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}

[guymclaren]

a forum if no one answers any questions?

[cr3ative]

Which script are you using? Please provide a link.

cr3ative

[guymclaren]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm

[cr3ative]

Find these 2 lines:


dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"

And change them to this:
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+50+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+50+obj.offsetHeight+"px"

Which will add 50 to the position from left and 50 top position from top. To make it 65px to the left and 85px up as you suggested, you could do this:

dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")-65+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")-85+obj.offsetHeight+"px"

cr3ative

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