Element: 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

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
touchstart_event
22
12
52
No
No
No
≤37
25
6
Yes
Yes
1.5

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/touchstart_event