obtain mouse coordinates through chrome extension

Question

I am curious to know if there is a way to get the mouse coordinates through a chrome extension and then use these coordinates to check if the person has clicked in that position

Answer 1

In my projects, I put this simple jQuery script in a separate file to check for x and y coordinates. I can simply toggle it off and on with the trackingMouse variable.

// this lets you click anywhere on the page and see the x and y coordinates
let trackingMouse = true;

$(document).ready(() => {
  $(document).on('click', (e) => {
    if (trackingMouse) {
      let x = e.pageX;
      let y = e.pageY;
      console.log(`The x coordinate is: ${x}`);
      console.log(`The y coordinate is: ${y}`);
    }
  });
});