jQuery x y document coordinates of DOM object

Question

I need to get the X,Y coordinates (relative to the document\'s top/left) for a DOM element. I can\'t locate any plugins or jQuery property or method that can give these to

Answer 1

The offset function will do that for you.

Here is the example they give:

var p = $("p:last");
var offset = p.offset();
p.html( "left: " + offset.left + ", top: " + offset.top );