HTML | DOM MouseEvent pageX Property

The MouseEvent pageX property is a read-only property and used for returning the horizontal coordinate of the mouse pointer when an event has triggered.

Syntax:

event.pageX

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

Below program illustrates the MouseEvent pageX property:

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

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>MouseEvent pageX Property in HTML</title> 
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h2 { 
            font-family: Impact; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>MouseEvent pageX Property Property</h2> 
  
    <p onclick="coord(event)"> 
      Click somewhere in the paragraph to get  
      the x(horizontal) coordinates of the  
      mouse pointer when it was clicked.</p> 
  
    <p id="test"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        function coord(event) { 
            
            var x = event.pageX; 
            var coords = "X coordinates: " + x; 
            document.getElementById( 
              "test").innerHTML = coords; 
        } 
    </script> 
  
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before clicking the button:
After clicking the button

Supported Browsers:

Opera
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Firefox
Apple Safari

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