I wish to make some DIV's expand and take up the full screen when clicked on. . I cant just animate their height and width to 100% because this would only work if they are in the top left of the screen when clicked, if they are anywhere else they will end up partially off screen.   Would the following steps achieve the effect I want   1) Place the DIV inside a parent DIV (so that I can place absolute positioning on it as default) 2) When clicked   - change its position to fixed  - animate i