jQuery .css(“left”) returns “auto” instead of actual value in Chrome

Question

I have div element with left and top defined, without absolute position, and I want to read the left and top values using jQuery.

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Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but I ran into this same problem and thought I would suggest a couple of solutions. It seems that this problem is not specific to Chrome, as I was able to reproduce in Firefox as well.

I was able to solve this one of two ways. Either place you CSS styles in the same file as your HTML, instead of using a separate CSS file. OR, call the function inside of window.onload. Looks like the values are not available to the browser until everything has loaded, IF the styles are in an external style sheet.

Hope this is helpful.