HTMLImageElement: x property
The read-only HTMLImageElement
property x
indicates the x-coordinate of the <img>
element's left border edge relative to the root element's origin.
The x
and y
properties are only valid for an image if its display
property has the computed value table-column
or table-column-group
. In other words: it has either of those values set explicitly on it, or it has inherited it from a containing element, or by being located within a column described by either <col>
or <colgroup>
.
Value
An integer value indicating the distance in pixels from the left edge of the element's nearest root element and the left edge of the <img>
element's border box. The nearest root element is the outermost <html>
element that contains the image. If the image is in an <iframe>
, its x
is relative to that frame.
In the diagram below, the left border edge is the left edge of the blue padding area. So the value returned by x
would be the distance from that point to the left edge of the content area.
Note: The x
property is only valid if the computed value of the image's display
property is either table-column
or table-column-group
; in other words, either of those are set directly on the <img>
or they're inherited from a containing element or by being located within a column described by either <col>
or <colgroup>
.
Example
The example below demonstrates the use of the HTMLImageElement
properties x
and y
.
HTML
In this example, we see a table showing information about users of a website, including their user ID, their full name, and their avatar image.
<table id="userinfo">
<colgroup>
<col span="2" class="group1">
<col>
</colgroup>
<tr>
<th>UserID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Avatar</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12345678</td>
<td>Johnny Rocket</td>
<td><img src="https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/examples/grapefruit-slice-332-332.jpg"></td>
</th>
</table>
<pre id="log">
</pre>
JavaScript
The JavaScript code that fetches the image from the table and looks up its x
and y
values is below.
let logBox = document.querySelector("pre");
let tbl = document.getElementById("userinfo");
let log = (msg) => {
logBox.innerHTML += `${msg}<br>`;
};
let cell = tbl.rows[1].cells[2];
let image = cell.querySelector("img");
log(`Image's global X: ${image.x}`);
log(`Image's global Y: ${image.y}`);
This uses the <table>
's rows
property to get a list of the rows in the table, from which it looks up row 1 (which, being a zero-based index, means the second row from the top). Then it looks at that <tr>
(table row) element's cells
property to get a list of the cells in that row. The third cell is taken from that row (once again, specifying 2 as the zero-based offset).
From there, we can get the <img>
element itself from the cell by calling querySelector()
on the HTMLTableCellElement
representing that cell.
Finally, we can look up and display the values of the HTMLImageElement
's x
and y
properties.
CSS
The CSS defining the appearance of the table:
.group1 {
background-color: #d7d9f2;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border: 2px solid rgb(100, 100, 100);
font-family: sans-serif;
}
td,
th {
border: 1px solid rgb(100, 100, 100);
padding: 10px 14px;
}
td > img {
max-width: 4em;
}
Result
The resulting table looks like this:
Specifications
Browser compatibility
|
Desktop |
Mobile |
|
Chrome |
Edge |
Firefox |
Internet Explorer |
Opera |
Safari |
WebView Android |
Chrome Android |
Firefox for Android |
Opera Android |
Safari on IOS |
Samsung Internet |
x |
1 |
12 |
141–7 |
No |
≤12.1 |
3 |
4.4 |
18 |
144–7 |
≤12.1 |
1 |
1.0 |