jQuery get the location of an element relative to window

Question

Given an HTML DOM ID, how to get an element\'s position relative to the window in JavaScript/JQuery? This is not the same as relative to the document nor offset parent sinc

Answer 1

Initially, Grab the .offset position of the element and calculate its relative position with respect to window

Refer :
1. offset
2. scroll
3. scrollTop

You can give it a try at this fiddle

Following few lines of code explains how this can be solved

when .scroll event is performed, we calculate the relative position of the element with respect to window object

$(window).scroll(function () {
    console.log(eTop - $(window).scrollTop());
});

when scroll is performed in browser, we call the above event handler function

code snippet

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function log(txt) {
  $("#log").html("location : " + txt + " px")
}

$(function() {
  var eTop = $('#element').offset().top; //get the offset top of the element
  log(eTop - $(window).scrollTop()); //position of the ele w.r.t window

  $(window).scroll(function() { //when window is scrolled
    log(eTop - $(window).scrollTop());
  });
});

#element {
  margin: 140px;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 5px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid #0099f9;
  border-radius: 3px;
  background: #444;
  color: #0099d9;
  opacity: 0.6;
}
#log {
  position: fixed;
  top: 40px;
  left: 40px;
  color: #333;
}
#scroll {
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 10px;
  right: 10px;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  border-radius: 2px;
  padding: 5px;
}

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