What's the state of art steps to calculate the position of an event?

Question

Suppose the event is e. How to know where it happened (as in position)?

I'm also using jQuery.

Answer 1

e.target gives the object that triggered the event.

Answer 2

I think you're looking for e.pageX and e.pageY:

$('#something').click(function(e) {
  alert('event happended at ' + e.pageX + ', ' + e.pageY)
})