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MouseEvent: movementX property

The movementX read-only property of the MouseEvent interface provides the difference in the X coordinate of the mouse pointer between the given event and the previous mousemove event. In other words, the value of the property is computed like this: currentEvent.movementX = currentEvent.screenX - previousEvent.screenX.

Warning: Browsers use different units for movementX and screenX than what the specification defines. Depending on the browser and operating system, the movementX units may be a physical pixel, a logical pixel, or a CSS pixel.

Value

A number. Always zero on any MouseEvent other than mousemove.

Examples

This example logs the amount of mouse movement using movementX and movementY.

HTML

html

<p id="log">Move your mouse around.</p>

JavaScript

js

function logMovement(event) {
  log.insertAdjacentHTML(
    "afterbegin",
    `movement: ${event.movementX}, ${event.movementY}<br>`,
  );
  while (log.childNodes.length > 128) log.lastChild.remove();
}

const log = document.getElementById("log");
document.addEventListener("mousemove", logMovement);

Result

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
movementX 3722–37 13 411–41 No 2415–24 96–8 374.4–37 3725–37 414–41 2414–24 86–8 3.01.0–3.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/movementX