jQuery Dimension Plugin, Spacial Awareness Made Simple

October 31st, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

One of the most powerful jQuery plugins is dimension. Using dimension you can obtain the position, height & width of just about any element on the page and the window itself.

Uses:

Determine dimensions of document
Determine dimensions of window
Determine scroll offsets of containers
Set scroll offsets of containers
Determine dimensions of container contents
Determine absolute position of elements
Determine dimensions & offsets of parent elements.

Find Plugin & API Documentation here:

http://brandonaaron.net/docs/dimensions/

Filed under jQuery

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