Top "Touch" questions

Touch-based interfaces have unique considerations that do not apply to other modes of input, and vice versa.

How to determine if the client is a touch device

is there any nice and clean method or trick to find out if the user is on a touch-device or …

javascript jquery touch tablet
Disable Blue Highlight when Touch/Press object with Cursor:Pointer

There is a blue highlight that appears whenever a Div that has the cursor:pointer property applied is touched in …

html css mobile touch highlight
Detect left/right-swipe on touch-devices, but allow up/down-scrolling

I need to detect and react to left/right-swipes, but want to give the user the ability to scroll on …

javascript jquery touch swipe
Preferred Alternative to OnMouseOver for touch

Is there a preferred alternative or best practice for handling OnMouseOver javascript events on touch devices? All I can think …

javascript touch
Prevent touchmove default on parent but not child

I am creating a little web app for the iPad and I've got several elements I am preventing the user …

javascript jquery ipad touch
Forwarding UIGesture to views behind

I am working on an iphone (iOS 4.0 or later) app and having some troubles with touch handling between multiple views. …

iphone ios ipad touch uigesturerecognizer
Show touch keyboard (TabTip.exe) in Windows 10 Anniversary edition

In Windows 8 and Windows 10 before Anniversary update it was possible to show touch keyboard by starting C:\Program Files\Common …

windows winapi touch windows-10 windows-10-desktop
What is meaning of boolean value returned from an event-handling method in Android

In android, most event listener methods return a boolean value. What is that true/false value mean ? what will it …

android events touch return listener
How to make WPF input control show virtual Keyboard when it got focus in touch screen

For our WPF application, when it runs on touch screen(Surface Pro .etc), the TextBox/PasswordBox control cannot show virtual …

wpf wpf-controls touch
JavaScript touchend versus click dilemma

I am working on some javascript UI, and using a lot of touch events like 'touchend' for improved response on …

javascript jquery ios click touch