Body OnClick event... detect name/id of element clicked on?

[Noozer]

Is it possible to detect where on a page the click occurred when the OnClick
event of the BODY tag is fired?

Thx

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Noozer quothed:

Is it possible to detect where on a page the click occurred when the OnClick
event of the BODY tag is fired?

Yes, at least in IE. Horizontal: event.clientX - Vertical:
event.clientY.

 

[Toby Inkster]

Is it possible to detect where on a page the click occurred when the
OnClick event of the BODY tag is fired?

Yes, but it's bloody tricky.

"Mission Impossible - mouse position" by Peter-Paul Koch.
http://www.evolt.org/article/Mission_Impossible_mouse_position/17/23335/

 

[Noozer]

Yes, but it's bloody tricky.

"Mission Impossible - mouse position" by Peter-Paul Koch.
http://www.evolt.org/article/Mission_Impossible_mouse_position/17/23335/

Ick... that doesn't look very friendly at all.

.... so any idea if it's possible to detect where in a document a click
occurs (ie, within which element, or span or div, etc?)

Thx