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batman900

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Registered: 2006-01-02

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Offset of the actual editor area

How can you determine the offset of the actual HTMLArea (i.e. offsetTop and offsetLeft, etc.)  I checked the _textarea, _htmlarea, and _iframe but all of them have a 0 offset.

Thank you for your help.

gogo

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Registered: 2005-02-11

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Re: Offset of the actual editor area

offsetTop/Left is the offset from the parent element isn't it?  I think you should add up all the offsetTop's/Lefts back to the root element and that would give what you want.

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James Sleeman

batman900

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Registered: 2006-01-02

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Re: Offset of the actual editor area

Thank you, the trick was to both accumulate the distance inside the _htmlArea but also take into account the height of the _toolbar.  The code snipped I ended up with was:
var xx = xinha_editors['MyTextFieldsId']._htmlArea;
var ol = 0, ot = 0;
while(typeof xx.tagName != 'undefined')
{
    ot += xx.offsetTop;
    ol += xx.offsetLeft;
    xx = xx.parentNode;
}
var htmlareaOffsettop = ot + xinha_editors['HTMLEditor']._toolbar.offsetHeight;
var htmlareaOffsetleft = ol + el.offsetLeft;