Javascript developers commonly need to find out the position of an element in relation to other elements. For example, if there is a list of elements that need to be reordered, the position of the element being reordered needs to be found and updated. It turns out there are quite a few ways to go about doing this, especially when using a library with a ton of helper functions. Let’s take a look at 3 common ways of approaching this with prototype.js to see how they compare in ease of use and speed of execution.
