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<ul class="UIAPIPlugin-toc"><li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li><li><a href="#options">Arguments</a></li></ul><div class="UIAPIPlugin"><h1>jQuery UI Position Utility</h1><div id="overview"><h2 class="top-header">Overview</h2><div id="overview-main"><p>Utility script for absolutely positioning any widget relative to the window, document, a particular element, or the cursor/mouse.</p><p>Do not need ui.core.js or effects.core.js.</p></div><div id="overview-dependencies"><h3>Dependencies</h3><ul><li><i>none (only jQuery core)</i></li></ul></div><div id="overview-example"><h3>Example</h3><div id="overview-example" class="example"><ul><li><a href="#demo"><span>Demo</span></a></li><li><a href="#source"><span>View Source</span></a></li></ul><p><div id="demo" class="tabs-container" rel="300">Clicking on the green element transfers to the other.<br /></p><pre>$("#position1").position({my: "center",at: "center",of: "#targetElement"});$("#position2").position({my: "left top",at: "left top",of: "#targetElement"});$("#position3").position({my: "right center",at: "right bottom",of: "#targetElement"});$(document).mousemove(function(ev){$("#position4").position({my: "left bottom",of: ev,offset: "3 -3",collision: "fit"});});</pre><p></div><div id="source" class="tabs-container"></p><pre><!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script><style type="text/css">#targetElement { width:240px;height:200px;background-color:#999;margin:30px auto; }.positionDiv { width:50px;height:50px;opacity:0.6; }#position1 {background-color:#F00;}#position2 {background-color:#0F0;}#position3 {background-color:#00F;}#position4 {background-color:#FF0;}</style><script>$(document).ready(function() {$("#position1").position({my: "center",at: "center",of: "#targetElement"});$("#position2").position({my: "left top",at: "left top",of: "#targetElement"});$("#position3").position({my: "right center",at: "right bottom",of: "#targetElement"});$(document).mousemove(function(ev){$("#position4").position({my: "left bottom",of: ev,offset: "3 -3",collision: "fit"});});});</script></head><body style="font-size:62.5%;"><div id="targetElement"><div class="positionDiv" id="position1"></div><div class="positionDiv" id="position2"></div><div class="positionDiv" id="position3"></div><div class="positionDiv" id="position4"></div></div></body></html></pre><p></div></p><p></div></div></div><div id="options"><h2 class="top-header">Arguments</h2><ul class="options-list"><li class="option" id="option-my"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-my">my</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">String</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>Defines which position on <b>the element being positioned</b> to align with the target element: "horizontal vertical" alignment. A single value such as "right" will default to "right center", "top" will default to "center top" (following CSS convention). Acceptable values: "top", "center", "bottom", "left", "right". Example: "left top" or "center center"</p></div></li><li class="option" id="option-at"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-at">at</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">String</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>Defines which position on <b>the target element</b> to align the positioned element against: "horizontal vertical" alignment. A single value such as "right" will default to "right center", "top" will default to "center top" (following CSS convention). Acceptable values: "top", "center", "bottom", "left", "right". Example: "left top" or "center center"</p></div></li><li class="option" id="option-of"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-of">of</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">Selector</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>Element to position against. You can use a browser event object contains pageX and pageY values. Example: "#top-menu"</p></div></li><li class="option" id="option-offset"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-offset">offset</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">String</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>Add these left-top values to the calculated position, eg. "50 50" (left top) A single value such as "50" will apply to both.</p></div></li><li class="option" id="option-collision"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-collision">collision</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">String</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>When the positioned element overflows the window in some direction, move it to an alternative position. Similar to my and at, this accepts a single value or a pair for horizontal/vertical, eg. "flip", "fit", "fit flip", "fit none".</p><ul><li> <b>flip</b>: to the opposite side and the collision detection is run again to see if it will fit. If it won't fit in either position, the center option should be used as a fall back.</li><li> <b>fit</b>: so the element keeps in the desired direction, but is re-positioned so it fits.</li><li> <b>none</b>: not do collision detection.</li></ul><p></p></div></li><li class="option" id="option-using"><div class="option-header"><h3 class="option-name"><a href="#option-using">using</a></h3><dl><dt class="option-type-label">Type:</dt><dd class="option-type">Function</dd></dl></div><div class="option-description"><p>When specified the actual property setting is delegated to this callback. Receives a single parameter which is a hash of top and left values for the position that should be set.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></p><!--Pre-expand include size: 7094 bytesPost-expand include size: 10335 bytesTemplate argument size: 7101 bytesMaximum: 2097152 bytes--><!-- Saved in parser cache with key jqdocs_docs:pcache:idhash:3784-1!1!0!!en!2 and timestamp 20100909204144 -->