Question

I’m using jQuery to capture an event:

$('input').focus(function(e){

    console.log( e.pageX, e.pageY );

});

This doesn’t seem to work… any ideas on alternative ways to getting the mouse position?

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Help would be great.

Answer 1

You can only get mouse coordinates using mouse events. If you want to capture the position of the mouse, you can use a global mousemove event listener, and store the coordinates in a set of variables, which can later be accessed by the focus function. Example:

var pageX, pageY; //Declare these globally
$(window).mousemove(function(e){
    pagex = e.pageX;
    pageY = e.pageY;
});

$('input').focus(function(){
    console.log(pageX, pageY); // These variables have been defined by the global
                               //  mousemove event
});