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December 18, 2000 Initializing Element Coordinates  Tips: December 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The browser-independent W3C Standard's way to set and get an element position is via the style object's left and top properties. The following strings are example values of the left and top properties: 50px, 32px, and 0px. You can initialize an element properties by the STYLE attribute of its HTML tag. Notice the left:"150px" string in the following tag definition:
Click the button to check its visibility. It will come out empty for both Internet Explorer and Netscape 6. Surprisingly enough, both Internet Explorer and Netscape 6 do not recognize the string format of the left and top properties, and position them at coordinates (0,0). To solve this problem, you need to use the integer format:
Notice that only now the button is 250 pixels to right. Click the button to check its visibility. It will come out empty for Netscape 6 and "visible" for Internet Explorer.
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