HTML | DOM MouseEvent clientX Property

The MouseEvent clientX property is a read-only property which is used to return the horizontal coordinate of the mouse pointer based on the current window when a mouse event was triggered.

Syntax:

event.clientX

Return Value: It returns a number which represents the vertical coordinate of the mouse pointer in pixels.

Below program illustrates the MouseEvent clientX property :

Finding out the horizontal coordinates of the mouse pointer when the mouse button is clicked on an element.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>MouseEvent clientX Property</title> 
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h2 { 
            font-family: Impact; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>MouseEvent clientX Property</h2> 
  
    <p onclick="coord(event)">To get the x of the mouse pointer, 
      click on this paragraph. </p> 
  
    <p id="gfg"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        function coord(event) { 
            var getXCoord = event.clientX; 
            var result = "X coordinate: " + getXCoord; 
            document.getElementById("gfg").innerHTML = result; 
        } 
    </script> 
  
</body> 
  
</html> 
  
                   

Output:

After clicking on the paragraph:

Supported Web Browsers:

Opera
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Firefox
Apple Safari

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