Getting coordinates from mouse clicks on plane

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I am struggling to find a notebook that get coordinates when the user clicks with mouse in rectangular area. Any hints? Thanks.

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d3.pointer(evt) returns the pointer location of evt relative to the HTML element that the event is attached to. So you might have something like:

div.on("click", function (evt) {
  let [x,y] = d3.pointer(evt);
  // Do something with  x and y
});

Here’s an example where the click coordinates are reported:

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Thanks a lot, that solves my problem!