Get bottom and right position of an element

Question

I'm trying to get the position of an element within the window like so:

var link = $(element);  var offset = link.offset(); var top = offset.top; var left = offset.left; var bottom = $(window).height() - link.height(); bottom = offset.top - bottom; var right = $(window).width() - link.width(); right = offset.left - right; 

However the bottom and right have - in front of them... Why is this? as the numbers are correct just they should NOT be minus.

Answer 1

Instead of

var bottom = $(window).height() - link.height(); bottom = offset.top - bottom; 

Why aren't you doing

var bottom = $(window).height() - top - link.height(); 

Edit: Your mistake is that you're doing

bottom = offset.top - bottom; 

instead of

bottom = bottom - offset.top; // or bottom -= offset.top;