HTML DOM MouseEvent pageX Property

HTML Web Development Front End Technology

The HTML DOM MouseEvent pageX property returns the horizontal (x) coordinate of the mouse pointer relative to the document if a mouse event was triggered. Use with pageY to get the vertical coordinate as well.

Following is the syntax −

Returning reference to the pageX object

MouseEventObject.pageX

Let us see an example of MouseEvent pageX property −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>MouseEvent pageX</title>
<style>
   * {
      padding: 2px;
      margin:5px;
   }
   form {
      width:70%;
      margin: 0 auto;
      text-align: center;
   }
   #outer {
      width:70%;
      margin: 0 auto;
      padding: 0;
      text-align: center;
      border:1px solid black;
      height: 105px;
      background-color: #28a745;
   }
   input[type="button"] {
      border-radius: 10px;
   }
   #upper {
      border-bottom: 1px solid black;
      height: 40px;
      margin: 0 0 15px 0;
      background-color: #DC3545;
   }
   #lower {
      border-top: 1px solid black;
      height: 40px;
      margin: 15px 0 0 0;
      background-color: #DC3545;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
   <form>
      <fieldset>
         <legend>MouseEvent-pageX</legend>
         <div id="outer">
         <div id="upper"><h2>Danger</h2></div>
         <div id="lower"><h2>Danger</h2></div>
         </div>
         <input type="button" id="start" value="Start" onclick="gameStart()">
         <div id="divDisplay"></div>
      </fieldset>
   </form>
<script>
   var divDisplay = document.getElementById('divDisplay');
   var gameDisplay = document.getElementById('outer');
   function playGame(event) {
      var x = event.pageX;
      var y = event.pageY;
         if(y > 95 && y < 110){
            divDisplay.textContent = 'Keep Going!';
               if(x === 439){
                  divDisplay.textContent = 'Congrats! You Did it!';
                  gameDisplay.removeEventListener('mousemove', playGame);
               }
         }
         else{
            divDisplay.textContent = 'You moved to DANGER area. You loose!';
            gameDisplay.removeEventListener('mousemove', playGame);
         }
   }
   function gameStart(){
      gameDisplay.addEventListener('mousemove',playGame);
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>