Offset/Position of CSS-transformed elements

[leongersen]

The position documentation currently notes:

jQuery does not support getting the position coordinates of hidden elements or accounting for borders, margins, or padding set on the body element.

However, as reported in this 3 year old (!) ticket, there are also several issues in getting .position()/.offset() for elements with CSS transforms. Since it doesn't look like this issue in jQuery will be resolved any time soon, I'd say the documentation should alert users on the problems they may face when using these methods.

[arthurvr]

However, as reported in this 3 year old (!) ticket, there are also several issues in getting .position()/.offset() for elements with CSS transforms.

The ticket was closed, so can this be closed down now too?

[dmethvin]

The ticket was closed because it seems (seemed?) impractical to fix in code, but positions, offsets, and dimensions of CSS-transformed elements are indeed not correct so we probably do need some discussion in a reusable note applied to all the entries.