Hi,

I found:
var $heightEl1 = _position($element1)[1];
in an other forumpost. It gets you the value of the y coordinate of the element.

It's working for me like that:
browser.execute("_sahi._alert(_sahi._position(_sahi._span('belegärztliche Behandlung'))[1])");
It shows 425 in a messagebox.

The point is: I'm working with sahi from within Twist with the Java Wrapper of sahi and I need that value in a variable in Java, not only in an sahi messagebox.
browser.execute itself returns void.

I could replace:
_sahi._position(_sahi._span('belegärztliche Behandlung'))[1])
with
browser.position( browser.span( "belegärztliche Behandlung" ) ) + "[1])"

so the call now is

browser.execute("_sahi._alert(" + browser.position( browser.span( "belegärztliche Behandlung" ) ) + "[1])");
It also shows 425 in a message box. This far it is working.

But I did not manage to get to the 425 via "only" Java with browser.position( browser.span( "belegärztliche Behandlung" ) - so without sahi alert. Javadocs say, position returns an array, for example [100, 180]. In javadoc under returns it also says: a stub representing the element.

My several approaches only return: "undefined" or "_sahi._position(_sahi._span("belegärztliche Behandlung"))".

For example
ElementStub a = browser.position( browser.span( "belegärztliche Behandlung" ) );
System.out.println("Test: " + a );
gives
Test: _sahi._position(_sahi._span("belegärztliche Behandlung"))

or
System.out.println("Test: " + a.value() );
gives
Test: undefined

Any ideas?

This is on Windows 7 with Firefox 14.01 and sahi (within Twist). The sahi controller from within Twist does not show the sahi version number, but I found this: com.thoughtworks.twist.driver.sahi_3.0.0.12641-3bffc171c71291.

Thank you!