title: How do you get left position of parent element
body: <p>I've tried using position.left it says invalid object i've tried css.('left') i don't really know what to do. I want to get the position of the parent element so I can animate the child element left position Im creating a scrolling effect.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="MyDiv"&gt;
  &lt;div&gt;Element 1&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div&gt;Element 2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="Prev"&gt;Prev&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="Next"&gt;Next&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>