// ===================================================================
// Author: Matt Kruse <matt@mattkruse.com>
// WWW: http://www.mattkruse.com/
//
// NOTICE: You may use this code for any purpose, commercial or
// private, without any further permission from the author. You may
// remove this notice from your final code if you wish, however it is
// appreciated by the author if at least my web site address is kept.
//
// You may *NOT* re-distribute this code in any way except through its
// use. That means, you can include it in your product, or your web
// site, or any other form where the code is actually being used. You
// may not put the plain javascript up on your site for download or
// include it in your javascript libraries for download. 
// If you wish to share this code with others, please just point them
// to the URL instead.
// Please DO NOT link directly to my .js files from your site. Copy
// the files to your server and use them there. Thank you.
// ===================================================================


function getAnchorPosition(anchorname) {
	// This function will return an Object with x and y properties
	var useWindow=false;
	var coordinates=new Object();
	var x=0,y=0;
	// Browser capability sniffing
	var use_gebi=false, use_css=false, use_layers=false;
	if (document.getElementById) { use_gebi=true; }
	else if (document.all) { use_css=true; }
	else if (document.layers) { use_layers=true; }
	// Logic to find position
 	if (use_gebi && document.all) {
		x=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetLeft(document.all[anchorname]);
		y=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetTop(document.all[anchorname]);
		}
	else if (use_gebi) {
		var o=document.getElementById(anchorname);
		x=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetLeft(o);
		y=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetTop(o);
		}
 	else if (use_css) {
		x=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetLeft(document.all[anchorname]);
		y=AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetTop(document.all[anchorname]);
		}
	else if (use_layers) {
		var found=0;
		for (var i=0; i<document.anchors.length; i++) {
			if (document.anchors[i].name==anchorname) { found=1; break; }
			}
		if (found==0) {
			coordinates.x=0; coordinates.y=0; return coordinates;
			}
		x=document.anchors[i].x;
		y=document.anchors[i].y;
		}
	else {
		coordinates.x=0; coordinates.y=0; return coordinates;
		}
	coordinates.x=x;
	coordinates.y=y;
	return coordinates;
	}
// Functions for IE to get position of an object
function AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetLeft (el) {
	var ol=el.offsetLeft;
	while ((el=el.offsetParent) != null) { ol += el.offsetLeft; }
	return ol;
	}
function AnchorPosition_getWindowOffsetLeft (el) {
	return AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetLeft(el)-document.body.scrollLeft;
	}	
function AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetTop (el) {
	var ot=el.offsetTop;
	while((el=el.offsetParent) != null) { ot += el.offsetTop; }
	return ot;
	}
function AnchorPosition_getWindowOffsetTop (el) {
	return AnchorPosition_getPageOffsetTop(el)-document.body.scrollTop;
	}