javascript method of getting mouse coordinates in real time and displaying them

  • 2020-06-03 05:44:42
  • OfStack

This article illustrates javascript's method of getting mouse coordinates and displaying them in real time. Share to everybody for everybody reference. Specific implementation methods are as follows:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />
<title>JS Get mouse coordinates in real time and display them </title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var getCoordInDocumentExample = function(){
  var coords = document.getElementById("coords");
  coords.onmousemove = function(e){
   var pointer = getCoordInDocument(e);
   var coord = document.getElementById("coord");
   coord.innerHTML = "X,Y=("+pointer.x+", "+pointer.y+")";
  }
 }
 var getCoordInDocument = function(e) {
  e = e || window.event;
  var x = e.pageX || (e.clientX +
   (document.documentElement.scrollLeft
   || document.body.scrollLeft));
  var y= e.pageY || (e.clientY +
   (document.documentElement.scrollTop
   || document.body.scrollTop));
  return {'x':x,'y':y};
 }
 window.onload = function(){
   getCoordInDocumentExample();
 };
</script>
<div id="coords" 
style="width:500px;height:200px;background:#F2F1D7;
border:2px solid #0066cc;">
 Please move your mouse here. 
</div>
<br />
<div id="coord" 
style="width:500px;border:2px solid #336699;">&nbsp;</div>
</body>
</html>

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