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May 23.2007

I’m trying to figure out how to find the position of a centered div. I tried document.getElementById(id).style.top and document.getComputedStyle(theScreen, null).top neither of which worked. I can’t seem to get the position of this div unless I set it explicitly which doesn’t let me have it centered using margin: 0px auto. Is there another way to find the position of this thing? Thanks,

-Ryan

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@smeezekittyMay 23.2007 — try document.getElementById(id).style.center
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@mrhooMay 23.2007 — [CODE]function locate(who){
var L=0, T=0; // L is left, T is top (integers)
while(who){
L+= who.offsetLeft || 0;
T+= who.offsetTop || 0;
if(who== document.body) break;
who= who.parentNode;
}
var A= [L, T];
return A;
}[/CODE]
//test case:

var who= document.getElementsByTagName('*');

who= who[who.length-1];

alert(locate(who));
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