offset body does not work in Safari / Chrome

[ajpotts]

If the BODY is offset from the HTML then offset should report that number - but it's zero in webkit.

Test case here:

​http://www.partyark.co.uk/html/jqueryoffsetbody.html

[ajpotts]

Addition: though this might seem an esoteric case, in fact if you make body { position: relative } then offset is going to be wrong for _all the time_ in Safari/Chrome, because it will miss the last step.

Styling the body with margin for centering or whatever is not uncommon: it means avoiding wrapping everything in an extra div tag. And if you do that, then you're likely to do a position:relative because you're most likely to want everything relative to the body than the html.

[ajpotts]

Firefox2 also does not get this right for exactly the same reasons.

[brandon]

Adding position relative to the body element opens up a huge mess when dealing with offset. Margin is okay in the latest SVN but position relative and borders just wreak havoc.