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MouseEvent: screenX property

The screenX read-only property of the MouseEvent interface provides the horizontal coordinate (offset) of the mouse pointer in global (screen) coordinates.

Note: In a multiscreen environment, screens aligned horizontally will be treated as a single device, and so the range of the screenX value will increase to the combined width of the screens.

Value

A double floating point value.

Early versions of the spec defined this as an integer referring to the number of pixels.

Examples

This example displays your mouse's coordinates whenever you trigger the mousemove event.

HTML

html

<p>Move your mouse to see its position.</p>
<p id="screen-log"></p>

JavaScript

let screenLog = document.querySelector("#screen-log");
document.addEventListener("mousemove", logKey);

function logKey(e) {
  screenLog.innerText = `
    Screen X/Y: ${e.screenX}, ${e.screenY}
    Client X/Y: ${e.clientX}, ${e.clientY}`;
}

Result

Routing an event

When you trap events on the window, document, or other roomy elements, you can get the coordinates of that event (e.g., a click) and route it properly, as the following example demonstrates:

function checkClickMap(e) {
  if (e.screenX < 50) doRedButton();
  if (50 <= e.screenX && e.screenX < 100) doYellowButton();
  if (e.screenX >= 100) doRedButton();
}

Specifications

Specification
UI Events # dom-mouseevent-screenx

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
`screenX`	1	12	1.5	9	≤12.1	1	≤37	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0