The screenY
read-only property of the MouseEvent
interface provides the vertical coordinate (offset) of the mouse pointer in global (screen) coordinates.
The screenY
read-only property of the MouseEvent
interface provides the vertical coordinate (offset) of the mouse pointer in global (screen) coordinates.
A double
floating point value.
Early versions of the spec defined this as an integer referring to the number of pixels.
This example displays your mouse's coordinates whenever you trigger the mousemove
event.
html
<p>Move your mouse to see its position.</p> <p id="screen-log"></p>
js
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}`; }
Specification |
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UI Events # dom-mouseevent-screeny |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
screenY |
1 | 12 | 1.5 | 9 | ≤12.1 | 1 | ≤37 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/screenY