Getting javascript mouse position relative to website prefferably without jQuery
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I've found this snippet on Ajaxian, but I can't seem to use the cursor.y (or cursor.x) as a variable and when the function is called as such it does not seem to work. Is there a syntax problem or something else?
function getPosition(e) {
e = e || window.event;
var cursor = {x:0, y:0};
if (e.pageX || e.pageY) {
cursor.x = e.pageX;
cursor.y = e.pageY;
}
else {
cursor.x = e.clientX +
(document.documentElement.scrollLeft ||
document.body.scrollLeft) -
document.documentElement.clientLeft;
cursor.y = e.clientY +
(document.documentElement.scrollTop ||
document.body.scrollTop) -
document.documentElement.clientTop;
}
return cursor;
}
I'd preffer not to use jQuery UI if possible, since I've always thaught of jQuery and librarys as a bit of an overkill for most JS programing.
