jQuery get mouse position within an element

Question

One way is to use the jQuery offset method to translate the event.pageX and event.pageY coordinates from the event into a mouse position relative to the parent. Here's an example for future reference:

$("#something").click(function(e){
   var parentOffset = $(this).parent().offset(); 
   //or $(this).offset(); if you really just want the current element's offset
   var relX = e.pageX - parentOffset.left;
   var relY = e.pageY - parentOffset.top;
});

To get the position of click relative to current clicked element
Use this code

$("#specialElement").click(function(e){
    var x = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
    var y = e.pageY - this.offsetTop;
}); 

I use this piece of code, its quite nice :)

    <script language="javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    $(".div_container").mousemove(function(e){
        var parentOffset = $(this).parent().offset();
        var relativeXPosition = (e.pageX - parentOffset.left); //offset -> method allows you to retrieve the current position of an element 'relative' to the document
        var relativeYPosition = (e.pageY - parentOffset.top);
        $("#header2").html("<p><strong>X-Position: </strong>"+relativeXPosition+" | <strong>Y-Position: </strong>"+relativeYPosition+"</p>")
    }).mouseout(function(){
        $("#header2").html("<p><strong>X-Position: </strong>"+relativeXPosition+" | <strong>Y-Position: </strong>"+relativeYPosition+"</p>")
    });
});
</script>

@AbdulRahim answer is almost correct. But I suggest the function below as substitute (for futher reference):

function getXY(evt, element) {
                var rect = element.getBoundingClientRect();
                var scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop?
                                document.documentElement.scrollTop:document.body.scrollTop;
                var scrollLeft = document.documentElement.scrollLeft?                   
                                document.documentElement.scrollLeft:document.body.scrollLeft;
                var elementLeft = rect.left+scrollLeft;  
                var elementTop = rect.top+scrollTop;

                x = evt.pageX-elementLeft;
                y = evt.pageY-elementTop;

                return {x:x, y:y};
            }




            $('#main-canvas').mousemove(function(e){
                var m=getXY(e, this);
                console.log(m.x, m.y);
            });