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Document: touchstart event

The touchstart event is fired when one or more touch points are placed on the touch surface.

Bubbles Yes
Cancelable Yes
Interface TouchEvent
Event handler property ontouchstart

Examples

Code samples for those events are available on the dedicated page: Touch events.

Specifications

Specification
Touch Events
# event-touchstart

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also

  • Touch events
  • ontouchstart
  • This event on Element targets: touchstart

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Last modified: Sep 14, 2021, by MDN contributors

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  1. Document
  2. Constructor
    1. Document()
  3. Properties
    1. activeElement
    2. alinkColor
    3. all
    4. anchors
    5. applets
    6. bgColor
    7. body
    8. characterSet
    9. childElementCount
    10. children
    11. compatMode
    12. contentType
    13. currentScript
    14. defaultView
    15. designMode
    16. dir
    17. doctype
    18. documentElement
    19. documentURI
    20. domain
    21. embeds
    22. fgColor
    23. firstElementChild
    24. forms
    25. fullscreen
    26. fullscreenElement
    27. fullscreenEnabled
    28. head
    29. height
    30. hidden
    31. images
    32. implementation
    33. lastElementChild
    34. lastModified
    35. lastStyleSheetSet
    36. linkColor
    37. links
    38. location
    39. mozSyntheticDocument
    40. onoffline
    41. ononline
    42. origin
    43. pictureInPictureElement
    44. pictureInPictureEnabled
    45. plugins
    46. pointerLockElement
    47. preferredStyleSheetSet
    48. readyState
    49. referrer
    50. rootElement
    51. scripts
    52. scrollingElement
    53. selectedStyleSheetSet
    54. styleSheets
    55. styleSheetSets
    56. timeline
    57. title
    58. URL
    59. visibilityState
    60. vlinkColor
    61. width
    62. xmlEncoding
    63. xmlVersion
  4. Methods
    1. adoptNode()
    2. append()
    3. caretPositionFromPoint()
    4. caretRangeFromPoint()
    5. clear()
    6. close()
    7. createAttribute()
    8. createCDATASection()
    9. createComment()
    10. createDocumentFragment()
    11. createElement()
    12. createElementNS()
    13. createEntityReference()
    14. createEvent()
    15. createExpression()
    16. createNodeIterator()
    17. createNSResolver()
    18. createProcessingInstruction()
    19. createRange()
    20. createTextNode()
    21. createTouch()
    22. createTouchList()
    23. createTreeWalker()
    24. elementFromPoint()
    25. elementsFromPoint()
    26. enableStyleSheetsForSet()
    27. evaluate()
    28. execCommand()
    29. exitFullscreen()
    30. exitPictureInPicture()
    31. exitPointerLock()
    32. getAnimations()
    33. getBoxObjectFor()
    34. getElementById()
    35. getElementsByClassName()
    36. getElementsByName()
    37. getElementsByTagName()
    38. getElementsByTagNameNS()
    39. getSelection()
    40. hasFocus()
    41. hasStorageAccess()
    42. importNode()
    43. mozSetImageElement()
    44. open()
    45. prepend()
    46. queryCommandEnabled()
    47. queryCommandSupported()
    48. querySelector()
    49. querySelectorAll()
    50. registerElement()
    51. releaseCapture()
    52. replaceChildren()
    53. requestStorageAccess()
    54. write()
    55. writeln()
  5. Events
    1. afterscriptexecute
    2. animationcancel
    3. animationend
    4. animationiteration
    5. animationstart
    6. beforescriptexecute
    7. copy
    8. cut
    9. DOMContentLoaded
    10. drag
    11. dragend
    12. dragenter
    13. dragleave
    14. dragover
    15. dragstart
    16. drop
    17. fullscreenchange
    18. fullscreenerror
    19. gotpointercapture
    20. keydown
    21. keypress
    22. keyup
    23. lostpointercapture
    24. paste
    25. pointercancel
    26. pointerdown
    27. pointerenter
    28. pointerleave
    29. pointerlockchange
    30. pointerlockerror
    31. pointermove
    32. pointerout
    33. pointerover
    34. pointerup
    35. readystatechange
    36. scroll
    37. selectionchange
    38. selectstart
    39. touchcancel
    40. touchend
    41. touchmove
    42. touchstart
    43. transitioncancel
    44. transitionend
    45. transitionrun
    46. transitionstart
    47. visibilitychange
    48. wheel
  6. Inheritance:
    1. Node
    2. EventTarget
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