I want a JS function, that will tell me which dom object, is at a certin point on the screen, that is – the object that will be clicked, if the mouse was in this X,Y coordinate and clicked. Is there a way to do that?
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I want a JS function, that will tell me which dom object, is at a certin point on the screen, that is – the object that will be clicked, if the mouse was in this X,Y coordinate and clicked. Is there a way to do that?
document.elementFromPoint(x, y);will help you get this. Now if you are using mouseevents then you can proably replace x and y with the mouse position. Check http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html for mouse positions compatibilty in different browsers or use jQuery.