Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.
The nodeFromPoint()
property of the DocumentOrShadowRoot
interface returns the topmost node at the specified coordinates (relative to the viewport).
Currently this method is only implemented in Firefox, and only available to chrome code.
Syntax
var node = document.nodeFromPoint(x, y);
Parameters
x
- A double representing the horizontal coordinate of a point.
y
- A double representing the vertical coordinate of a point.
Returns
A Node
object.
Examples
HTML Content
<div> <p>Some text</p> </div> <p>Top node at point 30, 20:</p> <div id="output"></div>
JavaScript Content
var output = document.getElementById("output"); if (document.nodeFromPoint) { var node = document.nodeFromPoint(30, 20); output.textContent += node.localName; } else { output.innerHTML = "<span style=\"color: red;\">" + "Browser does not support <code>document.nodeFromPoint()</code>" + "</span>"; }
Specifications
Not part of any specification at present.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nodeFromPoint | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox
No support
No
| IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari No support No | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android
No support
No
| Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.