Question

I’m trying to emulate a mousemove event in a link in IE8, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to set the coordinates of the mouse in the event. This is my code so far:

function Handler()
{
    var dump = "";

    for(var i in event)
    {
        dump += ("" + i) + " => " + event[i] + "\n";
    }

    dumper.value = "";
    dumper.value = dump;
}

function Init()
{
    document.getElementById("link2").attachEvent("onmousemove", function(){Handler();});
}

function Emulate()
{
    var evt = document.createEventObject();
    evt.x = 10;
    evt.y = 10;
    document.getElementById("link2").fireEvent("onmousemove", evt);
}

The event is being attached by calling the Init() function onload. When I call Emulate() the coordinates are the actual coordinates of the cursor. Am I doing something wrong or is this just not possible?

Answer 1

OK I just edited my question to reflect my original failing code (the one I posted was messed up). The solution was to set clientX and clientY instead. x and y will automatically get the values assigned to them:

function Emulate()
{
    var evt = document.createEventObject();
    evt.clientX = 10;
    evt.clientY = 10;
    document.getElementById("link2").fireEvent("onmousemove", evt);
}