jQuery CSS - Access the position of an element

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:36 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery CSS : Exercise-5 with Solution

Access the position of an element.

Test Data :

 <body>
 <div style="height:75px;width:200px;padding:10px;margin:3px;border:1px solid blue;background-color:#F3E2A9;">
 </div>
 <p></p>
 </body>

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Access the position of an element</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="height:75px;width:200px;padding:10px;margin:3px;border:1px solid blue;background-color:#F3E2A9;"></div>
<p></p>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

var position = $("div").position();

$( "p" ).text( "Left : " + position.left + ", Top : " + position.top );

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-css-exercise-5 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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