Quick Reference
The Window screenY property returns the vertical coordinate of a window, relative to the screen.
<!-- html element to place output -->
<p id="my_output"></p>The following gets the named window (my_window) and returns its top left Y coordinate. The code could be placed in a function and called on the click of a button.
// variable
let y = my_window.screenY;
// output to the HTML element
document.getElementById('my_output').innerHTML = 'Y is: ' + y;Note
Modern browsers are usually setup to open new windows as tabs. Therefore many of the JS methods used to open, close, resize, etc. browser “windows” may not work as expected.
Output
Y is: 300Syntax
window.screenY
// or
screenYJavaScript Notes:
- When using JavaScript, single or double quotation marks are acceptable and work identically to one another; choose whichever you prefer, and stay consistent
- JavaScript is a case-sensitive language; firstName is NOT the same as firstname
- Arrays count starting from zero NOT one; so item 1 is position [0], item 2 is position [1], and item 3 is position [2] … and so on
- JavaScript variables must begin with a letter, $, or _
- JavaScript variables are case sensitive (x is not the same as X)
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