Possible to get the current mouse coords with Javascript?

Possible to get the current mouse coords with Javascript?

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• This can be done. Just googled and got the following code

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

• you can get mouse coordinats in browser like this.

• Here is a full example: here

• Source: http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/mouse-coordinates.html

  <form name="Show">
  X <input type="text" name="MouseX" value="0" size="4"><br>
  Y <input type="text" name="MouseY" value="0" size="4"><br>
  </form>
  
  <script language="JavaScript">
  var IE = document.all?true:false;
  if (!IE) document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE)
  document.onmousemove = getMouseXY;
  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;
  document.Show.MouseY.value = tempY;
  return true;
  }
  </script>
  

  Andrew G. Johnson : Modified a bit but worked great on my tests: IE6, IE7, & FF3

• Here is a compact function with a demonstration, it returns value with coordinates in .x and .y:

  function mouseCoords(ev){
   // from http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/mk/column2/
   if(ev.pageX || ev.pageY){
    return {x:ev.pageX, y:ev.pageY};
   }
   return {
    x:ev.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft - document.body.clientLeft,
    y:ev.clientY + document.body.scrollTop  - document.body.clientTop
   };
  }
  

  (I found quirksmode to be a good resource of JavaScript wisdom. Here is the some background of the function in case you want to dig deeper.)