Retrieving DOM textnode position

Question

Is it possible to retrieve the geometric position (i.e. top/left offsets from either the parent element, the page, etc) of a text node?

Answer 1

Have a look at this article - it uses the offsetParent property to recursively figure out the offset.

I would always recommend jquery over rolling your own methods for browser-varying stuff like this. The jquery CSS functions seem to have the methods you need!