How to get pixel's index from image in javascript

Question

I wanna make the ball bounce when it hit the board. So I have to get the board pixels to make it bounce when the ball hit the board. I tried this way but it didn't works. Here is my code Javascript code

var xboard = document.getElementById(board)
var movx = parseInt(xboard.style.left)

Image code

<img id="board" style="z-index: 0; left: 300;position: absolute; top: 600px" align=baseline border=0 hspace=0 src="design/board.gif">

When I tried to get the pixels by

alert(movx)

It said "Undefined" at the alert box. Could anyone help me?

Answer 1

This method gives you the coordinates of control passed

<img id="board" style="z-index: 0; left: 300;position: absolute; top: 600px" align=baseline border=0 hspace=0 src="design/board.gif">

function findPos(obj){
var curleft = 0;
var curtop = 0;

if (obj.offsetParent) {
    do {
        curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
        curtop += obj.offsetTop;
       } while (obj = obj.offsetParent);

    return {X:curleft,Y:curtop};
}
}

findPos(document.getElementById('board'));
alert(curleft);
alert(curtop);

For more details here

Answer 2

I think you need to declare the position with px:

left: 300px

Seems to work: http://jsfiddle.net/p2gRq/

Answer 3

You are trying to use an actual element instead of it's id.

Change this:

var xboard = document.getElementById(board);

to:

var xboard = document.getElementById('board');

And make sure you're not trying to access board before it exists.