RE: [cssom-view] Why is body's offsetParent null ?

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:28:30 +0200, Mike Wilson 
> <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Though, the CSSOM scheme will break down if you want to know the
> > offset to the body element as there is no way to get at this
> > information.
> >
> > In particular, as Garrett pointed out, this offset is available 
> > in all browsers except Opera (and CSSOM) when using 
> > position:relative on the body element:
> > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--cssom-view--small-update-p16063070.html
> 
> Following that (special casing position:relative on the HTML 
> body element)  
> would break finding the position of an element within the page, as I  
> explained here:
> 
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0366.html

That's only the current behaviour of Firefox you're talking about, right? 
The Firefox algorithm is admittedly broken 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255754
and according to Boris Zbarsky they are waiting for your IE reverse-
engineering (done for this spec) before they do any changes or fix the 
bugs.

The offset behaviour in (standards mode) IE, when you have 
position:relative on the body element, will give you both offset between
body and viewport edge and between body and other elements:

Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2008 11:21:08 UTC