dojo.html.getAbsolutePosition() not sufficient for determining layout coordinate in style - 0.4.3 tapestry script under firefox

Folks,

I rendered a gallery widget on a T-4.1.6 page, and ontop of each image I just create a text node as a child and write some transparent text. So it is rendering.... image with dom text noce positioned ontop (as a child)

In IE the child node places fine and I do not have to muck with position except for the X position (still do nto know why though).

In firefox it's worse, both X,Y position are not being applied to the styel and messed up. So I have to set manually. 5,5 is desired coordinate relative to the image (top left message text).

I cannot set the position at all though. The coordinates coming back are 202 for Y but when all is said and done, the text position for Y gets placed at 0.

Am I confused about dojo.html.getAbsolutePosition(...) ? It returns what seems to be valid values but I am ubale to get the text node to position at all. It is like the rendering phase it taking over and clobbering anything I try to set.

Is it the rendering phase thats messing me up?

Here is a snippet. I am operating this out of a *.script file in T-4.1.6

Thanks for your help.

TransparentTextImage.script
function decorateTransparentText_${index}() {
debugger;
// now attach transparent text to image
var imageDom = document.getElementById("Image_" + ${index});

// place transparent text in a div element
var divBlock = document.createElement("div");
divBlock.style.background = 'transparent';
divBlock.style.color = 'yellow';
divBlock.style.fontFamily = 'Arial';
divBlock.style.fontSize = '12pt';
divBlock.style.fontWeight = 'bolder';
divBlock.style.position = 'absolute';
if ( dojo.render.html.ie ) {
//divBlock.style.top = findPos(imageDom).y;
divBlock.style.left = findPos(imageDom).x - imageDom.offsetWidth;
} else if ( dojo.render.html.mozilla ) {
divBlock.style.top = findPos(imageDom).y - imageDom.clientHeight;
divBlock.style.top = 0;
divBlock.style.top = imageDom.parentNode.offsetHeight;
divBlock.style.top = imageDom.offsetHeight;
divBlock.style.top = dojo.html.getAbsolutePosition(imageDom, true, dojo.html.boxSizing.BORDER_BOX).y;
divBlock.style.top = dojo.style.getAbsolutePosition(imageDom, false).y;
divBlock.style.top = dojo.html.getAbsoluteY(imageDom, false);

//divBlock.style.left = findPos(imageDom).x - imageDom.clientWidth;
}
divBlock.style.zIndex = 10;

var textNode = document.createTextNode("${transparentText}");

divBlock.appendChild(textNode);

}