The MouseEvent clientY property is a read-only property which is used to return the vertical coordinate of the mouse pointer based on the current window when a mouse event was triggered.
Syntax :
event.clientY
Return Value: It returns a number that represents the vertical coordinate of the mouse pointer in pixels.
Below program illustrates the MouseEvent clientY property:
Finding out the vertical coordinates of the mouse pointer when the mouse button is clicked on an element.
html
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>MouseEvent clientY Property</title>
<style>
h1 {
color: green;
}
h2 {
font-family: Impact;
}
body {
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<h2>MouseEvent clientY Property</h2>
<p onclick="coord(event)">
To get the y coordinates of the mouse pointer,
click on this paragraph. </p>
<p id="gfg"></p>
<script>
function coord(event) {
var getYcoord = event.clientY;
var result = "Y coordinate: " + getYcoord;
document.getElementById("gfg").innerHTML = result;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
After clicking the button
Supported Web Browsers:
- Google Chrome 1 and above
- Edge 12 and above
- Opera 12.1 and above
- Internet Explorer 9 and above
- Firefox 1.5 and above
- Apple Safari 1 and above