Get a number for a style value WITHOUT the “px;” suffix

Question

I am making a RTS game in Javascript and HTML. Sounds ambitious I know but I\'m not shooting for the stars here. Just a little something to keep me entertained.

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Answer 1

You can use .offsetLeft and .offsetTop to get values without px and the return type is numeric.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/2sbvL/

Script:

var result = document.getElementById( 'result' ),
    position = document.getElementById( 'position' );

result.textContent = position.offsetLeft + ', ' + position.offsetTop;

HTML:

CSS:

#position {
    border: 1px solid black;
    height: 50px;
    left: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50px;
    width: 50px;
}

Output: