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BillyRayPreachersSon
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Not in JavaScript, no. You can only detect mouse clicks within the confines of the browser window.
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BillyRayPreachersSon
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You can use the onclick event. Something like this:
I wrote that for a thread a long time ago, but can't find it using the search function.
Hope this helps,
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Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">
<title>Mouse click test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function popMessage(e) {
if (!e) e = event;
var xPos = yPos = 0;
xPos = (e.pageX) ? e.pageX : e.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
yPos = (e.pageY) ? e.pageY : e.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
nDiv = document.createElement('div');
nDiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Div at ' + xPos + ',' + yPos));
nDiv.style.position = 'absolute';
nDiv.style.left = xPos + 'px';
nDiv.style.top = yPos + 'px';
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(nDiv);
}
document.onclick = popMessage;
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>I wrote that for a thread a long time ago, but can't find it using the search function.
Hope this helps,
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the search function leaves much to be desired...
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BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
Indeed it does. I'd love to know if the search function searches code snippets or not. It would be downright daft if it does not, given the nature of this site.
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BillyRayPreachersSon
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I finally tracked down the thread (using the manual search method) here:
thread216-1004751
Apologies to elegidito - I had thought the original code was mine, but clearly it was not.
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thread216-1004751
Apologies to elegidito - I had thought the original code was mine, but clearly it was not.
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