Need position (Y) of an image on screen

[Radnor]

Hello all!

I have a page where I read in content from a TEXT file and insert it on the page via a PHP script. This works great!!!! Then I have a graphic that follows. I need to know where on the screen this graphic is... (Y pos)

I post the graphic with a <span id="abc">img.... </span>

I've tried:
d=document.getElementById("abc");
alert (d.top); <---- undefined since I did not give it a value

I've tried:
alert (d.offsetParent);
alert (d.offsetTop);

my url looks like: www.abc.com/test.php?info="file"
I can change "file" to "file1" and show different content (works GREAT!!!)

Now the reason I need the Y pos of the graphic.... If file1 is short, I want to move the graphic to the botom of the screen and fill the body with bgcolor (white). If file1 is long, great... it writes on a white bg and goes on... looks good too.

Now.... I DO NOT want to use tables. I and a firm believer on keeping content separate from formatting (CSS!!!).

Thank you!!!
Radnor

[noob_0001]

Why don't you let the string lengh of the content determine it for you. Longer than X fine if not then move image.

[DragonEye]

Originally Posted by Radnor

Hello all!

I have a page where I read in content from a TEXT file and insert it on the page via a PHP script. This works great!!!! Then I have a graphic that follows. I need to know where on the screen this graphic is... (Y pos)

I post the graphic with a <span id="abc">img.... </span>

I've tried:
d=document.getElementById("abc");
alert (d.top); <---- undefined since I did not give it a value

I've tried:
alert (d.offsetParent);
alert (d.offsetTop);

my url looks like: www.abc.com/test.php?info="file"
I can change "file" to "file1" and show different content (works GREAT!!!)

Now the reason I need the Y pos of the graphic.... If file1 is short, I want to move the graphic to the botom of the screen and fill the body with bgcolor (white). If file1 is long, great... it writes on a white bg and goes on... looks good too.

Now.... I DO NOT want to use tables. I and a firm believer on keeping content separate from formatting (CSS!!!).

Thank you!!!
Radnor

I believe in that too, but I have noticed that most of the time you can save yourself a lot of trouble by putting it into tables. The tools that we currently have to format aren't sufficient I think

Matt.

[Radnor]

Originally Posted by noob_0001

Why don't you let the string lengh of the content determine it for you. Longer than X fine if not then move image.

That's exactly what I need to do. The problem I have is if the file is too short, there is an impact on the way the site looks. Plus, I'd like to keep the page(s) as close to a uniform length as I can.

I may just make it a fixed length. If the file is too long just auto:scroll. I really did not want the scroll bar. But if it is my only solution....

Thanks for the help. Will keep lookin for now.

What I may do now... see if I can determine the length of the info added. We'll see....

[LazyJim]

Useful info and code on PPK's Quirksmode web site; http://www.quirksmode.org/js/findpos.html