MouseEvent: clientY property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The clientY read-only property of the MouseEvent interface provides the vertical coordinate within the application's viewport at which the event occurred (as opposed to the coordinate within the page).

For example, clicking on the top edge of the viewport will always result in a mouse event with a clientY value of 0, regardless of whether the page is scrolled vertically.

Value

A double floating point value in pixels.

Examples

This example displays your mouse's coordinates whenever you trigger the mousemove event.

HTML

html
<p>Move your mouse to see its position.</p>
<p id="screen-log"></p>

JavaScript

js
let screenLog = document.querySelector("#screen-log");
document.addEventListener("mousemove", logKey);

function logKey(e) {
  screenLog.innerText = `
    Screen X/Y: ${e.screenX}, ${e.screenY}
    Client X/Y: ${e.clientX}, ${e.clientY}`;
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
UI Events
# dom-mouseevent-clienty

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
clientY

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Full support
Full support

See also