Yep, I tried your code in a demo page and it confirmed my initial
suspicions. It works great when the DOM of the test page is
initialized with the mouse coordinates. However, this only happens
when the mouse is initially moved after the page is refreshed.
Put your mouse in the middle of the test page, and hit F5 without
moving your mouse. No alerts will pop up until your mouse moves at
least a pixel. If you continue slamming refresh, no alerts at all will
display. The 'mouseover' event doesn't trigger until the mouse is
moved over the body of the web page. Additionally, the same is true if
you use your mouse to manually hit the refresh button, since it exists
outside the confines of the page.
Note: I tested in Chrome and Firefox 3 on Windows.
- Gavin
On Feb 27, 8:47 am, Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammar...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I do not need to move the mouse to fire that event ... have you tried?
>
> write this wherever and press F5 without move the mouse ...
>
> document.documentElement.onmouseover = function(){
> alert("Who moved?");
>
> };
>
> Regards
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM, d3r1v3d (Gavin Mulligan) <
>
> vtga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, but that requires the 'mouseover' event to be executed; which, in
> > turn, requires that a user move their mouse over the page at least a
> > pixel for it to trigger.
>
> > I believe Marcus was asking if it was possible to retrieve a user's
> > current mouse position without moving the cursor at all.
>
> > - Gavin
>
> > On Feb 27, 4:17 am, Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammar...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > $(document.documentElement).bind("mouseover", function(eventObj){
> > > alert([eventObj.clientX, eventObj.clientY]);
>
> > > });
>
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:49 PM, d3r1v3d (Gavin Mulligan) <
> > vtga...@gmail.com
>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi Marcus,
>
> > > > The function I've always used for obtaining the current mouse position
> > > > is:
> > > > function getMousePosition(eventObj){
> > > > if (eventObj.pageX && eventObj.pageY)
> > > > {
> > > > return {x: eventObj.pageX, y: eventObj.pageY};
> > > > }
>
> > > > return {x: (eventObj.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft -
> > > > document.body.clientLeft),
> > > > y: (eventObj.clientY + document.body.scrollTop -
> > > > document.body.clientTop)};
> > > > }
>
> > > > However, the major caveat here is that you need to bind this function
> > > > to some event. A given browser will keep track of mouse movements
> > > > within itself, but I do not believe it tracks movements outside its
> > > > window. Additionally, unless a user has moved their mouse within a
> > > > given web page, I don't believe the DOM for that page is updated with
> > > > the appropriate coordinates. So, long story short, I don't think what
> > > > you're asking is possible.
>
> > > > - Gavin
>
> > > > On Feb 26, 9:41 am, smurkas <marcus.dalg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hello. I ran into this problem today. I would like to know the mouse
> > > > > position when the page has loaded without the user having to move
> > > > > the mouse. I have tried just getting the xy-values but it returned
> > > > > undefined if I triggered on document load and 0 0 if I just trigger
> > > > > different mouse events when the page has loaded via firebug.
>
> > > > > Is it possible to get the values without moving the mouse and if
> > so,
> > > > > how do I do it?
>
> > > > > Yours kindly, Marcus.
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