TouchEvent targetTouches Property
Example
Find out how many fingers that touches an element:
function countTouches(event) {
var x = event.targetTouches.length;
}
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Description
The targetTouches property returns an array of Touch objects, one for each finger that is touching the current target element.
Note: This property is read-only.
Syntax
event.targetTouches
Technical Details
| Return Value: | An Array of Touch objects. |
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Related Pages
HTML DOM reference: TouchEvent touches Property
More Examples
Example
Return the tag name of the current element:
function getTagname(event) {
var x = event.touches[0].clientX;
var y = event.touches[0].clientY;
}
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Browser Support
event.targetTouches is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.
It is fully supported in all modern browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
