offest method is used to retrieve the current position of the element. It gets the coordinates of the element.It returns an object, which contains the top and left property.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p { margin-top:20px; }
</style>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Mahak Garg</p><p></p>
<script>var x = $("p:last");
var offset = x.offset();
x.html( "Left Coordinate: " + offset.left + ", Top Coordinate: " + offset.top );</script>
</body>
</html>
Output: