HTMLImageElement: y property
The read-only HTMLImageElement
property y
indicates the y-coordinate of the <img>
element's top border edge relative to the root element's origin.
The x
and y
properties are only valid for an image if its display
property has the computed value table-column
or table-column-group
. In other words: it has either of those values set explicitly on it, or it has inherited it from a containing element, or by being located within a column described by either <col>
or <colgroup>
.
Value
An integer value indicating the distance in pixels from the top edge of the element's nearest root element to the top edge of the <img>
element's border box. The nearest root element is the outermost <html>
element that contains the image. If the image is in an <iframe>
, its y
is relative to that frame.
In the diagram below, the top border edge is the top edge of the blue padding area. So the value returned by y
would be the distance from that point to the top edge of the content area.

Note: The y
property is only valid if the computed value of the image's display
property is either table-column
or table-column-group
; in other words, either of those are set directly on the <img>
or they're inherited from a containing element or by being located within a column described by either <col>
or <colgroup>
.
Example
See HTMLImageElement.x
for example code that demonstrates the use of the HTMLImageElement.y
(and HTMLImageElement.x
).
Specifications
Browser compatibility
|
Desktop |
Mobile |
|
Chrome |
Edge |
Firefox |
Internet Explorer |
Opera |
Safari |
WebView Android |
Chrome Android |
Firefox for Android |
Opera Android |
Safari on IOS |
Samsung Internet |
y |
1 |
12 |
141–7 |
No |
≤12.1 |
3 |
4.4 |
18 |
144–7 |
≤12.1 |
1 |
1.0 |