iframe relative mouse position

[madmike]

Hi,


I have an iframe with some javascipt that gets the mouse x and y
position like this:
//inside the iframe's onmousemove call back funciton
xMousePos = window.event.cl ientX + document.body.s crollLeft;
yMousePos = window.event.cl ientY + document.body.s crollTop;

This gets the x and y position inside the iframe. But what I want is
the x and y position of the parent window, not the screen like
screenX. Is there any easy way to get parentX and parentY or to get
the offset x and y of the iframe relitive to the parent from inside
the iframe?


thanks in advance,
mike

[Csaba2000]

Re: iframe relative mouse position

The way I've done this in the past (if memory serves) is to find the element containing the IFrame and then percolate
up using .offsetParent

Csaba Gabor

"madmike" <mikek@cs.cmu.e du> wrote in message news:cb16b300.0 307160810.37526 5f3@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
>
> I have an iframe with some javascipt that gets the mouse x and y
> position like this:
> //inside the iframe's onmousemove call back funciton
> xMousePos = window.event.cl ientX + document.body.s crollLeft;
> yMousePos = window.event.cl ientY + document.body.s crollTop;
>
> This gets the x and y position inside the iframe. But what I want is
> the x and y position of the parent window, not the screen like
> screenX. Is there any easy way to get parentX and parentY or to get
> the offset x and y of the iframe relitive to the parent from inside
> the iframe?
>
>
> thanks in advance,
> mike[/color]

[madmike]

Re: iframe relative mouse position

this worked for me.

// get the position relitive to the entire window
var el =parent.frames[FRAME_NAME].frameElement.o ffsetParent;
var x = 0, y = 0;

while (el)
{
x += el.offsetLeft;
y += el.offsetTop;
el = el.offsetParent ;
}