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Touch events touchstart, touchmove, touchend, and touchcancel fire when users interact with a touch-sensitive surface, such as a screen or drawing tablet. These events are similar to mouse events.

Status

Limited availability

MDN documentation

Touch events

Specifications

Touch Events, from Web Events Working Group (W3C).

Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

Chrome 22 Released on 2012-09-25
Chrome Android 25 Released on 2013-02-27
Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
Firefox 52 Released on 2017-03-07
Firefox for Android 6 Released on 2011-08-16
Safari ❌
Safari on iOS ≤3 Released before 2009-06-17

Baseline availability blocked since March 2017 by Safari (107 months)

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