# Getting the Mouse Movement Direction | kirupa.com

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-mouse-movement-direction-kirupa-com/633418>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-mouse-movement-direction-kirupa-com/633418 "2015-07-02T04:46:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-mouse-movement-direction-kirupa-com/633418/1 "2015-07-02T04:46:34Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 27 June 2015

For a variety of interactive scenarios, you will want to know what direction your mouse is moving in. If you can't think of a good reason for why you would want to know the mouse movement direction, take a look at [this classic "game"](http://www.spank.tm/) from many years ago:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/getting\_mouse\_movement\_direction.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/getting_mouse_movement_direction.htm)