Javascript: Positionin a DIV in Mozilla

[The Hobo]

Here's the code I'm running to try to align some items in Mozilla:

function setupDIVs() {
    var objMenu = findDom('menubar');

    objMenu.style.left = findLeft('logobar') + 10;
    objMenu.style.color = '#003399';
}

function findLeft(objectID) {
    if (findDom(objectID).offsetLeft) {
        return findDom(objectID).offsetLeft;
    } else if (findDom(objectID).clip.left) {
        return findDom(objectID).clip.left;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

function findDom(objectID){
   if (document.all){
     return document.all(objectID);
   } else if (document.getElementById){
     return document.getElementById(objectID);
   } else if (document.layers){
     return (document.layers[objectID]);
   }
}

The color changing works, but the element doesn't move.

Any ideas?

[CornedBee]

I assume that position is absolute to begin with, right?

A very likely reason for the failure is units. offsetLeft is simply a number, but style.clip.left might be a string containing a number and a unit (px, em, %, ...). If so, "addition" of 10 becomes a string concatenation and the result could be something like "40px10", which of course is an invalid value for the left style.

Another possibility is that the calculation results in a proper number, but then you still have no unit (e.g. "50"). In full or partial standards mode (meaning that you have a DOCTYPE declaration with HTML 4 or any XHTML) Mozilla might well refuse this non-standard property value as the CSS spec requires a unit for non-0 values.