How do I get the coordinates of a mouse click on a canvas element?

Question

What\'s the simplest way to add a click event handler to a canvas element that will return the x and y coordinates of the click (relative to the canvas element)?

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Answer 1

Here is a small modification to Ryan Artecona's answer for canvases with a variable (%) width:

 HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.relMouseCoords = function (event) {
    var totalOffsetX = 0;
    var totalOffsetY = 0;
    var canvasX = 0;
    var canvasY = 0;
    var currentElement = this;

    do {
        totalOffsetX += currentElement.offsetLeft;
        totalOffsetY += currentElement.offsetTop;
    }
    while (currentElement = currentElement.offsetParent)

    canvasX = event.pageX - totalOffsetX;
    canvasY = event.pageY - totalOffsetY;

    // Fix for variable canvas width
    canvasX = Math.round( canvasX * (this.width / this.offsetWidth) );
    canvasY = Math.round( canvasY * (this.height / this.offsetHeight) );

    return {x:canvasX, y:canvasY}
}