Is there a way to trigger mousemove and get event.pageX, event.pageY?

Question

So, like the question specifies, is there a way to trigger a mousemove event in jQuery which also sends the mouse coordinates to the event Object?

So far my code can trigger the mousemove using the .trigger(event) function but the event.pageX and event.pageY are undefined.

Answer 1

You need to set pageX and pageY directly before triggering the event. To set these properties, make a jQuery.Event object.

// create a jQuery event
e = $.Event('mousemove');

// set coordinates
e.pageX = 100;
e.pageY = 100;

// trigger event - must trigger on document
$(document).trigger(e);

See it in jsFiddle.