How do I get the coordinates of a mouse click on a canvas element?

Question

What\'s the simplest way to add a click event handler to a canvas element that will return the x and y coordinates of the click (relative to the canvas element)?

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Answer 1

Hey, this is in dojo, just cause it's what I had the code in already for a project.

It should be fairly Obvious how to convert it back to non dojo vanilla JavaScript.

  function onMouseClick(e) {
      var x = e.clientX;
      var y = e.clientY;
  }
  var canvas = dojo.byId(canvasId);
  dojo.connect(canvas,"click",onMouseClick);

Hope that helps.