mousemove

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Overview Table

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Target	dom/Element
Cancelable	No
Default action

Examples

View live exampleThis example uses the onmousemove event to monitor the location of the mouse cursor on the screen. When the mouse cursor moves over the div object, a span object is updated with the clientX and clientY property values. The clientX and clientY properties are exposed by the event object.

<script type="text/javascript">
function fnTrackMouse(){
   oNotice.innerText="Coords: (" + event.clientX + ", 
      " + event.clientY + ")";
}
</script>
<div id="oScratch" onmousemove="fnTrackMouse()">
  <span id="oNotice"></span>
</div>

Notes

Remarks

If the user presses a mouse button, use the button property to determine which button was pressed. Initiates any action associated with this event. To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Move the mouse over the document.

Syntax

Standards information

HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 18.2.3

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]: Type: IHTMLEventObj

a
abbr
acronym
address
applet
area
audio
b
bdo
big
blockQuote
body
button
canvas
caption
center
cite
code
custom
dd
del
dfn
dir
div
dl
document
dt
em
embed
fieldSet
font
form
hn
hr
i
img
input type=button
input type=checkbox
input type=file
input type=image
input type=password
input type=radio
input type=reset
input type=submit
input type=text
ins
kbd
label
legend
li
listing
map
marquee
menu
noBR
object
ol
p
plainText
pre
q
rt
ruby
s
samp
select
small
source
span
strike
strong
sub
sup
table
tBody
td
textArea
tFoot
th
tHead
tr
tt
u
ul
var
video
window
xmp
SVGSVGElement
Reference
onmousewheel
onmousedown
onmouseout
onmouseover
onmouseup
onmspointermove

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Portions of this content come from the Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]

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