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useMouse

Reactive mouse position

Basic Usage

import { useMouse } from '@vueuse/core';

const { x, y, sourceType } = useMouse();

Touch is enabled by default. To only detect mouse changes, set touch to false. The dragover event is used to track mouse position while dragging.

import { useMouse } from '@vueuse/core';
// ---cut---
const { x, y } = useMouse({ touch: false });

Custom Extractor

It's also possible to provide a custom extractor function to get the position from the event.

import type { UseMouseEventExtractor } from '@vueuse/core';
import { useMouse, useParentElement } from '@vueuse/core';

const parentEl = useParentElement();

const extractor: UseMouseEventExtractor = (event) =>
  event instanceof MouseEvent ? [event.offsetX, event.offsetY] : null;

const { x, y, sourceType } = useMouse({ target: parentEl, type: extractor });

Component Usage

<template>
  <UseMouse v-slot="{ x, y }"> x: {{ x }} y: {{ y }} </UseMouse>
</template>

Type Declarations

export type UseMouseCoordType = 'page' | 'client' | 'screen' | 'movement';
export type UseMouseSourceType = 'mouse' | 'touch' | null;
export type UseMouseEventExtractor = (
  event: MouseEvent | Touch,
) => [x: number, y: number] | null | undefined;
export interface UseMouseOptions extends ConfigurableWindow, ConfigurableEventFilter {
  /**
   * Mouse position based by page, client, screen, or relative to previous position
   *
   * @default 'page'
   */
  type?: UseMouseCoordType | UseMouseEventExtractor;
  /**
   * Listen events on `target` element
   *
   * @default 'Window'
   */
  target?: MaybeRefOrGetter<Window | EventTarget | null | undefined>;
  /**
   * Listen to `touchmove` events
   *
   * @default true
   */
  touch?: boolean;
  /**
   * Listen to `scroll` events on window, only effective on type `page`
   *
   * @default true
   */
  scroll?: boolean;
  /**
   * Reset to initial value when `touchend` event fired
   *
   * @default false
   */
  resetOnTouchEnds?: boolean;
  /**
   * Initial values
   */
  initialValue?: Position;
}
/**
 * Reactive mouse position.
 *
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useMouse
 * @param options
 */
export declare function useMouse(options?: UseMouseOptions): {
  x: ShallowRef<number, number>;
  y: ShallowRef<number, number>;
  sourceType: ShallowRef<UseMouseSourceType, UseMouseSourceType>;
};
export type UseMouseReturn = ReturnType<typeof useMouse>;