hover signals / position signals about compiler HOT 3 CLOSED

There is currently not a way to extract the top-left coordinates of an element. The best way to do it at the moment is to calculate where your element will be. This sounds kinda rough, but because all elements have an explicit width and height, it is not so bad. You could do something like this:

topStuff = flow down [ a, a ]
main = flow down [ topStuff, a, a, asText (heightOf topStuff) ]

I assume this is not exactly what you want, but something like this should do the job.

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This is more possible with the JS integration in 0.8. Should be possible to add natively to Elm in a future release.

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Hover detection was added in 0.9 but I do not have concrete plans for relative position detection, partly because of the duplicate Element issue you raise. I am going to close for now.

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