You can get top and left without traversing DOM like this:
function getCoords(elem) { // crossbrowser version
var box = elem.getBoundingClientRect();
var body = document.body;
var docEl = document.documentElement;
var scrollTop = window.pageYOffset || docEl.scrollTop || body.scrollTop;
var scrollLeft = window.pageXOffset || docEl.scrollLeft || body.scrollLeft;
var clientTop = docEl.clientTop || body.clientTop || 0;
var clientLeft = docEl.clientLeft || body.clientLeft || 0;
var top = box.top + scrollTop - clientTop;
var left = box.left + scrollLeft - clientLeft;
return { top: Math.round(top), left: Math.round(left) };
}