How to Retrieve the Position of an HTML Element Relative to the Browser Window?

John Au-Yeung
JavaScript in Plain English
2 min readOct 12, 2021

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Retrieving the position of an HTML element relative to the browser window is something that we’ve to sometimes in our JavaScript web app.

In this article, we’ll look at ways to get the position of an HTML element relative to the browser window.

The getBoundingClientRect Method

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