Get the absolute position of an element with Selenium web-driver

dom, java, javascript, selenium-webdriver

Solution

In Python this would get the offset top of a web element:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
element = driver.find_element_by_id('some_id')
offset_top = element.get_attribute('offsetTop')

Since both use Selenium then in Java the equivalent would be (untested):

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(url);
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("some_id"));
int offsetTop = element.getAttribute("offsetTop");

Problem

I am using a Selenium web-server in Java, in order to automate many web pages. For example: ``` WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get(url); WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("some_id")); ``` How can I get the absolute position of `element`? In Javascript, I can get the `offsetTop` and `offsetLeft` values of any element in the DOM: ``` var element = document.getElementById("some_id"); var offsetTop = element.offsetTop; var offsetLeft = element.offsetLeft; ``` So the first thing that comes to mind is to call the above script with a `JavascriptExecutor`. But I would like to avoid this. Is there any other way to obtain these values with Selenium? Thanks

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