mouse location

[defrex]

hi! lol, i know this might be a realy bumd question, but i'm used to flash, in wich this is posible. but, is there a way to find out where the mouse is? like x and y cords? or i guess it would be top and left for css. byt either way, is there? not knowing is an excuse for those umwilling to lern -- John Rueben

 

[Trevman]

Yeah there is a way to find out where the mouse is on the screen -- but its vastly different across browsers. Unfortionately, Netscape 6+, Mozilla, or anything else running gecko is the only browser to support the W3C DOM2 Event Model -- so that is bad. =(.

You have to capture the events, the code would be something like:


function capEvent(e){
if (document.all){
var xpos = event.clientX
var ypos = event.clientY
}
else if (document.sidebar || document.layers){
var xpos = e.clientX
var ypos = e.clientY
}
}

It might not be clientX and clientY -- could be screenX or screenY, don't quite remember right now. Hope that helps.

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[defrex]

sorry, i'm a bit new to this. what is/dose event do? and what value should i give to e? again, i'm just starting to learn this stuff so i don't know much... not knowing is an excuse for those umwilling to lern -- John Rueben

 

[Trevman]

event, or e, is the event object. It captures the event as it happens and saves information about the event.

event.type, or e.type, would tell you what type of event it is, such as onclick or onmouseover, etc.

event.clientY, e.clientY tells you the position on the screen the event happened. ===
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[Trevman]

So to find out where the mouse is and put it in the status bar, you coudl say something like:

function capEvent(e){

var xpos = e.clientX;
var ypos = e.clientY;

window.status = xpos + " " + ypos;

}

onmousemove = capEvent;
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[defrex]

ok, that makes sence. thanx alot! not knowing is an excuse for those umwilling to lern -- John Rueben