jQuery Get top offset relative to a specific div
Use $.offset()
, for example
alert($("#ELEMENT").offset().top - $("#top-container").offset().top)
body { background: blue}div { padding: 20px}#top-container { background: green}#one-level-container { background: red}#two-level-container { background: black}#ELEMENT { background: orange}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script><body style="padding:20px"> <div id="top-container" style="margin-top:20px"> <div id="one-level-container" style="margin-top:70px"> <div id="two-level-container" style="margin-top:120px"> <div id="ELEMENT" style="margin-top:10px"> </div> </div> </div> </div></body>