jQuery CSS - Find the offset of an element

Last update on May 30 2022 10:20:57 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery CSS : Exercise-9 with Solution

Find the offset of an element.

Sample Data :

HTML :

<body>
<p></p>
</body>

CSS:

<style>
p {
    margin-top:20px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 2px solid #666;
  }
</style>

Solution:

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Find the offset of an element</title>
</head>
<body>
<p></p>
 </body>
</html>

CSS Code:

p {
    margin-top:20px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 2px solid #666;
  }

JavaScript Code :

console.log("The left & top offset of the Paragraph are:"+$("p").offset().left+',' +$("p").offset().top);

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-css-exercise-9 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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