onMouseMove get mouse position

Question

In javascript, within the javascript event hander for onMouseMove how do I get the mouse position in x, y corrdinates relative to the top of the page?

Answer 1

if you can use jQuery, then this will help:

<div id="divA" style="width:100px;height:100px;clear:both;"></div>
<span></span><span></span>
<script>
    $("divA").mousemove(function(e){
      var pageCoords = "( " + e.pageX + ", " + e.pageY + " )";
      var clientCoords = "( " + e.clientX + ", " + e.clientY + " )";
      $("span:first").text("( e.pageX, e.pageY ) - " + pageCoords);
      $("span:last").text("( e.clientX, e.clientY ) - " + clientCoords);
    });

</script>

here is pure javascript only example:

var tempX = 0;
  var tempY = 0;

  function getMouseXY(e) {
    if (IE) { // grab the x-y pos.s if browser is IE
      tempX = event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
      tempY = event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
    }
    else {  // grab the x-y pos.s if browser is NS
      tempX = e.pageX;
      tempY = e.pageY;
    }  

    if (tempX < 0){tempX = 0;}
    if (tempY < 0){tempY = 0;}  

    document.Show.MouseX.value = tempX;//MouseX is textbox
    document.Show.MouseY.value = tempY;//MouseY is textbox

    return true;
  }

Answer 2

Especially with mousemove events, that fire fast and furious, its good to pare down the handlers before you use them-

var whereAt= (function(){
    if(window.pageXOffset!= undefined){
        return function(ev){
            return [ev.clientX+window.pageXOffset,
            ev.clientY+window.pageYOffset];
        }
    }
    else return function(){
        var ev= window.event,
        d= document.documentElement, b= document.body;
        return [ev.clientX+d.scrollLeft+ b.scrollLeft,
        ev.clientY+d.scrollTop+ b.scrollTop];
    }
})()

document.ondblclick=function(e){alert(whereAt(e))};