HTML | DOM MouseEvent pageY Property

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>