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>