How to get the position of an element in jQuery

Posted on: January 5th, 2010

Tags: Element, position

Here’s a little example of how to retrieve the current position of any element:

var pos = $("#mydiv").show().position(); //the element has to be visible -> show
alert(pos.left + " " + pos.top);

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