How to Know Where Cursor is Positioned

[Steve Dyke]

I have a page with two DIV tags on it(and upper section and lower section). I place a jsp in the lower section using jQuery load. When in the lower section I use the following code to keep up with the cursor so when mousedown is detected a third DIV tag is displayed at that point. This all works good except I tried to make the lower section DIV tag scrollable using overflow. Now my third DIV tag does not display at the cursor position it is offset usually lower. I figure it is the scrolling offset of the lower DIV tag but I have no idea how to compensate for this.

document.onmousemove = getMouseXY;
	var tempX = 0;
	var tempY = 0;
	
	function getMouseXY(e) {
		tempX = event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
    	tempY = event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
    
    	if (tempX < 0){tempX = 0};
  		if (tempY < 0){tempY = 0};
  	}

[Eric Pascarello]

Are you putting the div inside of the layer that scrolls and not on the document level?

The div also has a scrollTop

Eric