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title: "getCurrentPosition method in HTML5"
description: "Gelocation is the identification of the real world geographic location of an internet-connected computer, mobile device, website visitor or other. IP"
author: "Anonymous User"
published: 2011-07-30
updated: 2020-08-08
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/592/getcurrentposition-method-in-html5
category: "jquery"
tags: ["jquery"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
---
# getCurrentPosition method in HTML5
Gelocation is the identification of the real world geographic location of an internet-connected computer, mobile device, website visitor or other. IP address geolocation data can include information such as country, region, and city, postal/zip code, latitude, longitude and time zone..... Today most of the browsers and mobile devices support Geolocation API. The geolocation APIs work with a new property of the global navigator object i.e. Geolocation object which can be created as follows:\
var location = navigator.geolocation;
##### Gelocation method:
- getCurrentPosition()
- watchposition()
- clearWatch()
The getCurrentPosition method retrieves the current geographic location of the user. The location information is returned in a position object. In this article I am trying to show you that how we can find out the user geographic location.
##### Code:
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Latitude: