Making Element Position Absolute with jQuery

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 21 Oct 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

One of the things that I keep running into in library code I create is that I deal with a lot of elements that are floating/dragging or otherwise being moved around the document as free floating elements. jQuery.ui includes a dead simple Draggable plug-in that handles this easily, but in some situations the draggable plug-in is overkill when I simply need to pop up a dialog on the page on top of other content. One recurring theme for any of these scenarios is that I have to reliably turn an element...

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