bug in calculating the position of an element

[davidklonski]

Hello

I wrote a function which will find the exact top left coordinates in the screen.
The function will return an associative array with information on the element:

function getPositionAndDimension(element) {
  var left = 0;
  var top = 0;
  var width = element.offsetWidth;
  var height = element.offsetHeight;
  while (element.parentElement != null) {
    left += element.offsetLeft;
    top += element.offsetTop;
    element = element.parentElement;
  }
	
  var results = new Array(4);
  results['left'] = left;
  results['top'] = top;
  results['width'] = width;
  results['height'] = height;
		
  return results;
}

The problem is that the value that the function calculates for the element's top is incorrect.
I am getting values that are much larger than the actual top value.

can anyone see where the bug is in?
I am testing this on IE6

thanks

[Valera Selev]

Take a look at klayers library - a nice bundle of useful cross-browser DHTML functions.