In the past, I had to build a crop dialog for an image which had border, padding, negative margin and absolute positioning. IIRC, the only one of these jQuery p

In the past, I had to build a crop dialog for an image which had border, padding, negative margin and absolute positioning. IIRC, the only one of these jQuery plugins to get that right -- put the cropper and the mask in the right place -- was imgAreaSelect: http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/ http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/ The code is imminently readable. One tweak I did add was to expose the variable which references the cropping element container, it's called $area