Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.
The UIEvent.layerX read-only property returns the horizontal coordinate of the event relative to the current layer.
This property takes scrolling of the page into account, and returns a value relative to the whole of the document, unless the event occurs inside a positioned element, where the returned value is relative to the top left of the positioned element.
Syntax
var xpos = event.layerX
xposis an integer value in pixels for the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer, when the mouse event fired.
Examples
<html>
<head>
<title>pageX\pageY & layerX\layerY example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showCoords(evt){
var form = document.forms.form_coords;
var parent_id = evt.target.parentNode.id;
form.parentId.value = parent_id;
form.pageXCoords.value = evt.pageX;
form.pageYCoords.value = evt.pageY;
form.layerXCoords.value = evt.layerX;
form.layerYCoords.value = evt.layerY;
}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#d1 {
border: solid blue 1px;
padding: 20px;
}
#d2 {
position: absolute;
top: 180px;
left: 80%;
right:auto;
width: 40%;
border: solid blue 1px;
padding: 20px;
}
#d3 {
position: absolute;
top: 240px;
left: 20%;
width: 50%;
border: solid blue 1px;
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onmousedown="showCoords(event)">
<p>To display the mouse coordinates please click anywhere on the page.</p>
<div id="d1">
<span>This is an un-positioned div so clicking it will return
layerX/layerY values almost the same as pageX/PageY values.</span>
</div>
<div id="d2">
<span>This is a positioned div so clicking it will return layerX/layerY
values that are relative to the top-left corner of this positioned
element. Note the pageX\pageY properties still return the
absolute position in the document, including page scrolling.</span>
<span>Make the page scroll more! This is a positioned div so clicking it
will return layerX/layerY values that are relative to the top-left
corner of this positioned element. Note the pageX\pageY properties still
return the absolute position in the document, including page
scrolling.</span>
</div>
<div id="d3">
<form name="form_coords" id="form1">
Parent Element id: <input type="text" name="parentId" size="7" /><br />
pageX:<input type="text" name="pageXCoords" size="7" />
pageY:<input type="text" name="pageYCoords" size="7" /><br />
layerX:<input type="text" name="layerXCoords" size="7" />
layerY:<input type="text" name="layerYCoords" size="7" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Specifications
This property is not part of any specification.
Browser compatibility
| Feature | Firefox (Gecko) | Chrome | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | (Yes) | (Yes) | 9 | (Yes) | (Yes) |
| Feature | Firefox Mobile (Gecko) | Android | IE Mobile | Opera Mobile | Safari Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |