How to determine the relative position of an element?

[delerious]

I know how to figure out the top coordinate of an element relative to the top of the document. I can use one of the following:

- document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(element_id), '').getPropertyValue('top')

- document.getElementById(element_id).offsetTop

But I want to know the top coordinate of an element relative to the top of the viewable area of the browser. Does anyone know how to do this (in IE, Opera, and Mozilla)?

[Purple Martin]

window.pageYOffset

This tells you how much the document is scrolled down. You should then be able to calculate what you need.