peculiar dom model for nested UL elements

[Henrik Bechmann]

All,

I'm trying to spoof Google's vertical tabs in a vertical menu
structured with nested UL/LI elements.

To do this, I need to find out where the anchor in the LI is, and then
create an absolute positioned div to bridge the space between the menu
and the content page.

This works with one level of LI's. However, with more than one, the
nested elements have offsetHeight and clientTop (among others) that
are set to 0 (zero). (And even more peculiar - using the FF debugger,
the embedded stacked anchor strings have apparently been converted to
a single string with embedded line breaks).

Anyway, I don't get it.

The question: how do I get positioning information for nested UL/LI
elements (in both FF and IE6&7).

Thanks!

- Henrik

[RobG]

On Sep 24, 12:58 pm, Henrik Bechmann <[e-mail]:

All,

I'm trying to spoof Google's vertical tabs in a vertical menu
structured with nested UL/LI elements.

I have no idea what you mean by that. Do you have a link?

To do this, I need to find out where the anchor in the LI is, and then
create an absolute positioned div to bridge the space between the menu
and the content page.

That may make sense if I knew what you were trying to achieve, but I
don't so it doesn't. :-(

This works with one level of LI's. However, with more than one, the
nested elements have offsetHeight and clientTop (among others) that
are set to 0 (zero). (And even more peculiar - using the FF debugger,
the embedded stacked anchor strings have apparently been converted to
a single string with embedded line breaks).

"stacked anchor strings"? Can you post an example of the HTML that
you are trying to manipulate? Or a link to a minimal test case?

Anyway, I don't get it.

Nor do I. ;-)

The question: how do I get positioning information for nested UL/LI
elements (in both FF and IE6&7).

Matt Kruse has an object position library, have you tried it?

<URL: http://www.javascripttoolbox.com/lib/objectposition/ >

It's not perfect and may not work for your situation, but it's been
helpful in getting me over a few similar hurdles. Most I'd recommend
using pure CSS and HTML as much as possible, depending on script for
position (unless you keep the HTML simple) is generally a bad idea.
--
Rob