How to get offset() relative to parent in jQuery?

Question

This gives me the position of some element from the left edge of the main window:

$(\'#bar\').offset().left;

If that element is situated in

Answer 1

Position within a div relative to its parent:

In my case, when scroll changed the calculated offset also changed and it shouldn't so i ended up using pure javascript which is quicker anyway...

element.get(0).offsetTop

Other variation like Left is also possible element.get(0).offsetLeft

Conclusion

element.offset().top or position() are not optimal for position relative cases.