Cross browser issue with offset() jquery function

Question

I am having a cross browser issue with the offset() function in jQuery. For example, I am looking for the offset of an anchor tag

eg. $(\'#anchori

Answer 1

I get this problem in IE8 when my script is loaded on a page where the element that we want to get the offset().top of does not exist.

I solved it like this:

if ($('#element').length){
    $('#element').offset().top // ...
}

Never execute offset().top if the element does not exist.