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Retrieving the horizontal position of an object using Java Script

//Control ID: "txtName"
var curleft = 0;
var obj = document.getElementById("txtName");
if(obj.offsetParent) {
	while(obj.offsetParent) {
		curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
		obj = obj.offsetParent;
	}
} else if(obj.x)
	curleft += obj.x;

Retrieving the vertical position of an object using Java Script

//Control ID: "txtName"
var curtop = 0;
var obj = document.getElementById("txtName");
if (obj.offsetParent) {
	while (obj.offsetParent) {
		curtop += obj.offsetTop
		obj = obj.offsetParent;
	}
} else if(obj.y)
	curtop += obj.y;