clientY Event Attribute
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Definition and Usage
The clientY event attribute returns the vertical coordinate (according to the
client area) of the mouse
pointer when an event was triggered.
The client area is the current window.
Syntax
Example
The following example alerts the coordinates of the mouse pointer when the mouse button
was
clicked:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function show_coords(event)
{
x=event.clientX
y=event.clientY
alert("X coords: " + x + ", Y coords: " + y)
}
</script>
</head>
<body onmousedown="show_coords(event)">
<p>Click in the document. An alert box will alert
the x and y coordinates of the mouse pointer.</p>
</body>
</html>
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Try-It-Yourself Demos
clientY
- Alert the coordinates of the mouse pointer
Complete Event Object Reference
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