Positioning of html elements is not working ?

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Hi all ,

I am trying to place a button under another button using jquery but it is staying in its place.Knowing that when alerting its top and left they are giving me correct values as i want.So how to fix it ?

Here is the code :

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Untitled Page</title>

    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

</head>
<body>
    <form action="">
    <input type="button" id="placeit" value="placeit" name="btn2" />
    <input id="btn1" type="button" name="btn1" value="button" />
    <p>
    </p>
    </form>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var p = $("#btn1");
        var position = p.position();
        var place = document.getElementById("placeit");
        place.top = position.top + 30;
        place.left = position.left;
        alert(place.top);
        alert(place.left);
        $("p:last").text("left: " + position.left + ", top: " + position.top);
    </script>

</body>
</html>

Posted 30-Jul-11 7:19am

mhamad zarif

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-30T07:53:00

Solution 1

Take a look at this:
http://manifestwebdesign.com/developer-resources/setting-offset-with-jquery/[^]

Read the script carefully, and you'll see what you need to do. (hint: css position[^])

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 30-Jul-11 7:53am

Espen Harlinn

Updated 30-Jul-11 7:54am

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Comments

Manas Bhardwaj 30-Jul-11 13:56pm

my 5!

Espen Harlinn 30-Jul-11 14:01pm

Thank you, Manas!

mhamad zarif 30-Jul-11 14:10pm

my 5.It was a solution for my problem.thanks you.

mhamad zarif 30-Jul-11 14:09pm

It is working like magic ! thank you my friend.

Espen Harlinn 30-Jul-11 14:12pm

Good :)

thatraja 30-Jul-11 17:30pm

Spot on, 5!
BTW sorry man, I couldn't reply you as well.

Espen Harlinn 31-Jul-11 5:24am

Thank you, thatraja!