jQuery UI dialog positioning
- by Wickethewok
I am trying to use the jQuery dialog UI library in order to position a dialog next to some text when it is hovered over. The jQuery dialog takes a position parameter which is measured from the top left corner of the current viewport (in other words, [0, 0] will always put it in the upper left hand corner of your browser window, regardless of where you are currently scrolled to). However, the only way I know to retrieve the location is of the element relative to the ENTIRE page.
The following is what I have currently. position.top is calculated to be something like 1200 or so, which puts the dialog well below the rest of the content on the page.
$(".mytext").mouseover(function() {
position = $(this).position();
$("#dialog").dialog('option', 'position', [position.top, position.left]);
}
How can I find the correct position?
Thanks!
