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#4202 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened February 20, 2009 02:36PM UTC

Closed February 20, 2009 05:05PM UTC

Last modified March 14, 2012 03:30PM UTC

Webkit: offset, body position relative

Reported by: braddunbar Owned by: brandon
Priority: major Milestone: 1.4
Component: offset Version: 1.3.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

When the position of the body is relative, offset does not take into account the offset of the body from the html element.

In the attached file this is shown by attempting to calculate the left offset of a div within the body.

Firefox 3.0.6 and IE7 report correct values.

Safari 3.2.2 and Chrome 1.0.154.48 report incorrect values.

Attachments (1)
  • offset.html (0.5 KB) - added by braddunbar February 20, 2009 02:37PM UTC.

    Test Case showing incorrect offset calculation for relative position on body

Change History (2)

Changed February 20, 2009 05:05PM UTC by brandon comment:1

resolution: → wontfix
status: new → closed

The last time I looked into this particular issue it had further reaching issues in all browsers and required a lot of code. The amount of code it required did not justify this particular edge-case to be fixed, especially when the workaround is so easy. Just use a container/wrapper div instead of the body tag.

With that said, I'll look into the issue again... make sure I didn't miss anything before. :)

Changed February 20, 2009 05:23PM UTC by braddunbar comment:2

I agree that the fix is easy, but you don't always have control over the markup your plugin will be deployed with.

I actually found the issue when using a jquery UI plugin that inexplicably started getting the wrong offset.

I would like to look into this a bit more. Would you mind sending me a synopsis of your findings the first time around? Anything at all would be helpful.

Thanks!