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TouchEvent targetTouches Property

❮ DOM Events ❮ TouchEvent

Example

Find out how many fingers that touches an element:

function countTouches(event) {
  var x = event.targetTouches.length;
}
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Definition and Usage

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.


Browser Support

Property
targetTouches 22 yes 52 Not supported Not supported

Syntax

event.targetTouches

Technical Details

Return Value: An Array of Touch objects.

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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❮ DOM Events ❮ TouchEvent