In this tutorial we will see how to Get Mouse Cursor Position in Pixels using JavaScript. The JavaScript clientX and clientY properties are used for this.
Table of Contents
HTML Code
HTML Code is given below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<title>Get Mouse Cursor Position in Pixels using JavaScript</title>
</head>
<body>
<p id='output'></p>
</body>
</html>
CSS Code
CSS Code is given below.
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#output{
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
font-size: 20px;
}
JavaScript Code
JavaScript Code is given below, clientX and clientY property returns the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the mouse cursor which are then displayed inside the paragraph element with id output.
<script>
document.onmousemove=getCursorPos;
var output = document.getElementById('output');
function getCursorPos(a)
{
var posx = a.clientX;
var posy = a.clientY;
output.innerHTML="Position X: " + posx + "px & Position Y: " + posy + "px";
}
</script>
Demo
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