jQuery: Position of the mouse pointer

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:45 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Events : Exercise-9 with Solution

Find the position of the mouse pointer relative to the left and top edges of the document.

Solution :

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Find the position of the mouse pointer relative to the left and top edges of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="doc"></div>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

$( document ).on( "mousemove", function( event ) {
  $( "#doc" ).text( "pageX: " + event.pageX + ", pageY: " + event.pageY );
});

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-events-exercise-9 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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