HTML | DOM MouseEvent clientX Property

Last Updated : 30 Jan, 2019

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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