What's the state of art steps to calculate the position of an event?

Question

Suppose the event is e . How to know where it happened (as in position)?

I'm also using jQuery.

Answer 1

I think you're looking for e.pageX and e.pageY :

$('#something').click(function(e) {
  alert('event happended at ' + e.pageX + ', ' + e.pageY)
})

Answer 2

e.target给出触发事件的对象。