你可以这样做:

var canvas = yourCanvasElement;
var mouseX = (event.clientX - (canvas.offsetLeft - canvas.scrollLeft)) - 2;
var mouseY = (event.clientY - (canvas.offsetTop - canvas.scrollTop)) - 2;

这将为您提供鼠标指针的确切位置。

下面是对Ryan Artecona关于画布宽度可变(%)的答案的一个小修改:

 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}
}

根据最新的Quirksmode，所有主流浏览器都支持clientX和clientY方法。 所以，它开始了-在滚动条页面上的滚动div中工作的良好工作代码:

function getCursorPosition(canvas, event) {
var x, y;

canoffset = $(canvas).offset();
x = event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft + document.documentElement.scrollLeft - Math.floor(canoffset.left);
y = event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop + document.documentElement.scrollTop - Math.floor(canoffset.top) + 1;

return [x,y];
}

这也需要jQuery $(canvas).offset()。

参见http://jsbin.com/ApuJOSA/1/edit?html,output上的演示。

  function mousePositionOnCanvas(e) {
      var el=e.target, c=el;
      var scaleX = c.width/c.offsetWidth || 1;
      var scaleY = c.height/c.offsetHeight || 1;

      if (!isNaN(e.offsetX)) 
          return { x:e.offsetX*scaleX, y:e.offsetY*scaleY };

      var x=e.pageX, y=e.pageY;
      do {
        x -= el.offsetLeft;
        y -= el.offsetTop;
        el = el.offsetParent;
      } while (el);
      return { x: x*scaleX, y: y*scaleY };
  }

Edit 2018:这个答案很老了，它使用检查不再需要的旧浏览器，因为clientX和clienti属性在所有当前的浏览器中都有效。您可能想要查看Patriques Answer，以获得一个更简单、更近期的解决方案。

最初的回答: 正如我当时发现的一篇文章所描述的那样，但现在已经不存在了:

var x;
var y;
if (e.pageX || e.pageY) { 
  x = e.pageX;
  y = e.pageY;
}
else { 
  x = e.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft + document.documentElement.scrollLeft; 
  y = e.clientY + document.body.scrollTop + document.documentElement.scrollTop; 
} 
x -= gCanvasElement.offsetLeft;
y -= gCanvasElement.offsetTop;

对我来说效果很好。

以下是上述Ryan Artecona解决方案的一些修改。

function myGetPxStyle(e,p)
{
    var r=window.getComputedStyle?window.getComputedStyle(e,null)[p]:"";
    return parseFloat(r);
}

function myGetClick=function(ev)
{
    // {x:ev.layerX,y:ev.layerY} doesn't work when zooming with mac chrome 27
    // {x:ev.clientX,y:ev.clientY} not supported by mac firefox 21
    // document.body.scrollLeft and document.body.scrollTop seem required when scrolling on iPad
    // html is not an offsetParent of body but can have non null offsetX or offsetY (case of wordpress 3.5.1 admin pages for instance)
    // html.offsetX and html.offsetY don't work with mac firefox 21

    var offsetX=0,offsetY=0,e=this,x,y;
    var htmls=document.getElementsByTagName("html"),html=(htmls?htmls[0]:0);

    do
    {
        offsetX+=e.offsetLeft-e.scrollLeft;
        offsetY+=e.offsetTop-e.scrollTop;
    } while (e=e.offsetParent);

    if (html)
    {
        offsetX+=myGetPxStyle(html,"marginLeft");
        offsetY+=myGetPxStyle(html,"marginTop");
    }

    x=ev.pageX-offsetX-document.body.scrollLeft;
    y=ev.pageY-offsetY-document.body.scrollTop;
    return {x:x,y:y};
}