position of link on IE6 browser

[soup_or_power]

Hello
I'm trying to assign the position of a popup the same as a link.
The position of link is coming out ok. But the popup is not
being shown at the left,top coordinates of the link. I'm using IE6 and
getting workedup like silly. I'd appreciate your help.
Thank you

document.getElementById('popup').style.visibility= "visible";
var top= document.body.scrollTop +
document.getElementById('link1').offsetTop;
document.getElementById('popup').style.top=top;
var left =document.body.scrollLeft +
document.getElementById('link1').offsetLeft;
document.getElementById('popup').style.left=left;

[soup_or_power]

How can I display the popup relative to the top of the frame. Using the
offsetTop and offsetLeft the popups appear at the bottom of the frame.
Thanks for your help

[soup_or_power]

Still waiting for help!!!!

[Peter Schaefer]

Try this and let me know what pops up (if anything)
document.getElementById('popup*').style.visibility ="visible";
var top= document.body.scrollTop +
document.getElementById('link1*').offsetTop;
document.getElementById('popup*').style.top=top;
var left =document.body.scrollLeft +
document.getElementById('link1*').offsetLeft;
document.getElementById('popup*').style.left=left;

alert(document.getElementById('link1*').offsetTop)
alert(document.getElementById('link1*').offsetLeft )

if you get nothing, then there's your problem.If the values were not
set by js, this is likely.
if you get something like '200px' then you are adding strings to
numbers and
will get the wonderful value 'NaN' which is no good.

let me know.

TheGeek

[soup_or_power]

Hi Peter

All the popup's are placed on the top-left corner instead
of on the links. The alerts showed numbers --- no px.

Thanks for your help.

[VK]

May want to check this post:

<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/53548d50037263db/24424e0fc46922c9?lnk=st&q=requested+group:comp.lan g.javascript+author:VK&rnum=2&hl=en#24424e0fc46922 c9>
so***********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi Peter

All the popup's are placed on the top-left corner instead
of on the links. The alerts showed numbers --- no px.

Thanks for your help.

[soup_or_power]

Why can't I position a popup over a link when the tooltip gets
positioned exactly where I want to position the popup?

Thanks for your help.

[soup_or_power]

I fixed my problem. The solution is at
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/findpos.html. Thanks for all your help!

function findPosX(obj)
{
var curleft = 0;
if (obj.offsetParent)
{
while (obj.offsetParent)
{
curleft += obj.offsetLeft
obj = obj.offsetParent;
}
}
else if (obj.x)
curleft += obj.x;
return curleft;
}

function findPosY(obj)
{
var curtop = 0;
if (obj.offsetParent)
{
while (obj.offsetParent)
{
curtop += obj.offsetTop
obj = obj.offsetParent;
}
}
else if (obj.y)
curtop += obj.y;
return curtop;
}