Mega Code Archive
IE4+ Event Coordinate Properties
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/*
JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition
by Danny Goodman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001
ISBN: 0764533428
*/
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>X and Y Event Properties (IE4+)</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function checkCoords() {
var form = document.forms[0]
form.srcElemTag.value = "<" + event.srcElement.tagName + ">"
form.clientCoords.value = event.clientX + "," + event.clientY
form.pageCoords.value = (event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft) +
"," + (event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop)
form.offsetCoords.value = event.offsetX + "," + event.offsetY
form.screenCoords.value = event.screenX + "," + event.screenY
form.xyCoords.value = event.x + "," + event.y
form.parElem.value = "<" + event.srcElement.offsetParent.tagName + ">"
return false
}
function handleSize() {
document.forms[0].resizeCoords.value = event.clientX + "," + event.clientY
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onMouseDown="checkCoords()" onResize="handleSize()">
<H1>X and Y Event Properties (IE4+)</H1>
<HR>
<P>Click on the button and in the DIV/image to see the coordinate values for the
event object.</P>
<FORM NAME="output">
<TABLE>
<TR><TD COLSPAN=2>IE Mouse Event Coordinates:</TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">srcElement:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="srcElemTag"
SIZE=10></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">clientX, clientY:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="clientCoords" SIZE=10></TD>
<TD ALIGN="right">...With scrolling:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="pageCoords" SIZE=10></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">offsetX, offsetY:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="offsetCoords" SIZE=10></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">screenX, screenY:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="screenCoords" SIZE=10></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">x, y:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="xyCoords"
SIZE=10></TD>
<TD ALIGN="right">...Relative to:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="parElem"
SIZE=10></TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right"><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Click Here"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD COLSPAN=2><HR></TD></TR>
<TR><TD COLSPAN=2>Window Resize Coordinates:</TD></TR>
<TR><TD ALIGN="right">clientX, clientY:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="resizeCoords" SIZE=10></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
<DIV ID="display" STYLE="position:relative; left:100">
<IMG SRC="nile.gif" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240" BORDER=0>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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