track mouse or cursor location

Sreedhar Bukya
1 min readOct 15, 2016

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I wrote simple mouse/cursor tracker code in JavaScript to track mouse location on the client screen. In this blog, I have mentioned the cursor or mouse for the same meaning.

I assume everyone knows the mouse is not part of DOM. It is a part of the Operating system. DOM listens to different events of a mouse. for example: “mousemove”, “mouseup” and “mousedown” etc. Please refer here for understanding different events.

I assume everyone knows the mouse is not part of DOM. It is a part of the Operating system. DOM listens to different events of a mouse. for example: “mousemove”, “mouseup” and “mousedown” etc. Please refer here for understanding different events.

I have used “mousemove” event listener to track the location of the cursor.

Here is code snippet for cursor-tracker source code.

Illustration image for Mouse tracking:

Please feel free to comments if any found anything interesting.

Looking forward to comments below.

Thanking you.

Originally published at www.sreedharbukya.com on October 15, 2016.

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