How to get relative click coordinates on the target element using JQuery?

Last Updated : 06 Sep, 2019

Here is the code to get the coordinates of the element, Here 2 methods are discussed one is calculating the relative position to its parent while another is calculating the relative position to the document.

Approach 1:

Attach the click event to the element.
Call an anonymous function when an event occurs.
Calculate the X relative to the parent element by subtracting the Offset().left property from the pageX property.
Similarly, calculate the Y relative to parent element by subtracting the Offset().top property from the pageY property.

Example 1: This example follows the approach discussed above to calculate the location’s relative position to its parent element.

<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        How to get relative click coordinates 
      on the target element using JQuery? 
    </title> 
    <script src= 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        #GFG_UP { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        button { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center;" id="body"> 
    <h1 style="color:green;">   
            GeeksForGeeks   
        </h1> 
    <p id="GFG_UP" style="font-size: 15px; 
              font-weight: bold;"> 
    </p> 
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color:green; 
              font-size: 20px;  
              font-weight: bold;"> 
    </p> 
    <script> 
        var el_up = document.getElementById("GFG_UP"); 
        var el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); 
        var x, y; 
        el_up.innerHTML = "Click inside any bordered element to get the"+  
        "click coordinates of that particular location with respect"+ 
        "to its parent element "; 
        $('h1').click(function(e) { 
            // element that has been clicked. 
            var elm = $(this); 
  
            // getting the respective 
            x = e.pageX - elm.offset().left; 
  
            // coordinates of location. 
            y = e.pageY - elm.offset().top; 
            gfg_Run(); 
        }); 
        $('#GFG_UP').click(function(e) { 
            var elm = $(this); 
            // getting the respective 
            x = e.pageX - elm.offset().left; 
  
            // coordinates of location. 
            y = e.pageY - elm.offset().top; 
            gfg_Run(); 
        }); 
  
        function gfg_Run() { 
            el_down.innerHTML = "X- " + x + "<br>Y- " + y; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

Approach 2:

Attach the click event to the element.
Call an anonymous function when event occurs.
Calculate the X relative to document by pageX property.
Similarly, calculate the Y relative to document by pageY property.

Example 2: This example follows the approach discussed above to calculate the location’s relative position to the document.

<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        How to get relative click coordinates 
      on the target element using JQuery? 
    </title> 
    <script src= 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"> 
  </script> 
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        #GFG_UP { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        button { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:center;" id="body"> 
    <h1 style="color:green;">   
            GeeksForGeeks   
        </h1> 
    <p id="GFG_UP"
       style="font-size: 15px;  
              font-weight: bold;"> 
    </p> 
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" 
       style="color:green; 
              font-size: 20px;  
              font-weight: bold;"> 
    </p> 
    <script> 
        var el_up = document.getElementById("GFG_UP"); 
        var el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); 
        var x, y; 
        el_up.innerHTML = "Click inside any bordered element "+ 
          "to get the click coordinates of that particular "+ 
          "location with respect to document"; 
        $('h1').click(function(e) { 
            
          // element that has been clicked. 
            var elm = $(this);  
            
          // getting the respective 
            x = e.pageX;  
            
          // coordinates of location. 
            y = e.pageY;  
            gfg_Run(); 
        }); 
        $('#GFG_UP').click(function(e) { 
            // element that has been clicked. 
            var elm = $(this); 
  
            // getting the respective 
            x = e.pageX; 
  
            // coordinates of location. 
            y = e.pageY; 
            gfg_Run(); 
        }); 
  
        function gfg_Run() { 
            el_down.innerHTML = "X- " + x + "<br>Y- " + y; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 