normalise pageX/pageY

[sam]

As Internet Explorer does not support pageX and pageY it would be useful if the properties could still be used. The workaround I use at the moment is:

if(!event.pageX)
{
	event.pageX = event.clientX + (document.documentElement.scrollLeft || document.body.scrollLeft);
	event.pageY = event.clientY + (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop);
}

Works with no problems in IE7, Firefox 2 and Opera 8.5.

[joern]

Is there any browser apart from IE that doesn't provide pageX natively?

I'd rewrite the code a little:

if(!event.pageX) {
  var e = document.documentElement, b = document.body;
  event.pageX = event.clientX + (e.scrollLeft || b.scrollLeft);
  event.pageY = event.clientY + (e.scrollTop || b.scrollTop);
}

[anonymous]

This would be very helpful indeed

[Geoffreyk]

If I had a dollar for everytime I have written this function.... I think this should be added to 1.1

[andrea ercol]

good

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Very nice! I'm definitely for it.

[Alex Cook]

Yes please :)

[joern]

Fixed in SVN.