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I''ve been using prototype and CSS for about a month now and I am confused as to why Element.positionedOffset doesn''t always work consistently between IE6/7 and FireFox 2. More than likely I am just not understanding something. The demo of the code can be found here: http://www.synaptik.com/downloads/prototype/bugs/positionedOffset.html. The gist of what I am trying to do is get the offset of an...

Hi All, I am trying to develop a dynamic form creator application, whereby we can drag objects from a "palette" and drop them onto a "form" to build the design of our form. To achieve this, when I have dragged the object, and dropped it onto the "form" area, I want to get the position of where the object was dropped. I have a droppable area:

...ar understanding. realOffset - This returns the coordinates of the element as if none of the elements on the page are scrollable from the document edge. cumulativeOffset - This returns the coordinates of the element from the document edge (not taking scrolling into account or anything fancy). positionedOffset - This will return the same thing as cumulativeOffset most of the time, but if the element is contained in a positioned element (''absolute'' or ''relative'') then it returns the coordinates from the parentOffset of the element (which is the top-level element that...

...{ element = $(element); - if (element.getStyle('position') == 'absolute') return; + if (element.getStyle('position') == 'absolute') return element; // Position.prepare(); // To be done manually by Scripty when it needs it. var offsets = element.positionedOffset(); @@ -2036,7 +2058,7 @@ Element.Methods = { relativize: function(element) { element = $(element); - if (element.getStyle('position') == 'relative') return; + if (element.getStyle('position') == 'relative') return element; // Position.prepare();...

Note that one of the 8 patches (#6) will be sent separately in reply to this email, as some of the replaced lines are too long, so git won't let me send the email. However, there is nothing wrong with that patch, and it should be applied in the sequence listed below. Note also that I assume this will be tested on a clean f11 install, rather than an upgrade of an existing ovirt server