[javascript] How to get an element's top position relative to the browser's viewport?

The function on this page will return a rectangle with the top, left, height and width co ordinates of a passed element relative to the browser view port.

    localToGlobal: function( _el ) {
       var target = _el,
       target_width = target.offsetWidth,
       target_height = target.offsetHeight,
       target_left = target.offsetLeft,
       target_top = target.offsetTop,
       gleft = 0,
       gtop = 0,
       rect = {};

       var moonwalk = function( _parent ) {
        if (!!_parent) {
            gleft += _parent.offsetLeft;
            gtop += _parent.offsetTop;
            moonwalk( _parent.offsetParent );
        } else {
            return rect = {
            top: target.offsetTop + gtop,
            left: target.offsetLeft + gleft,
            bottom: (target.offsetTop + gtop) + target_height,
            right: (target.offsetLeft + gleft) + target_width
            };
        }
    };
        moonwalk( target.offsetParent );
        return rect;
}