HTML | DOM MouseEvent pageY Property

Last Updated : 31 Jan, 2019

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

Syntax :

event.pageY

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

Below program illustrates the MouseEvent pageY property:

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

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