TouchEvent: TouchEvent() constructor

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

TheTouchEvent() constructor creates a newTouchEvent object.

Note:If you construct a synthetic event using this constructor, that event will not betrusted, for security reasons.Only browser-generatedTouchEvent objects are trusted and only trusted events trigger default actions.

Syntax

new TouchEvent(type)new TouchEvent(type, options)

Parameters

type

A string with the name of the event.It is case-sensitive and browsers set it totouchstart,touchend,touchmove,touchcancel

optionsOptional

An object that,in addition of the properties defined inUIEvent(), can have the following properties:

touchesOptional: ATouchList, defaulting to an empty one, that is a list of objects for every point of contact currently touching the surface.
targetTouchesOptional: ATouchList, defaulting to an empty one, that is a list of objects for every point of contact that is touching the surfaceand started on the element that is the target of the current event.
changedTouchesOptional: and defaulting to[], of typeTouch[], that is a list of objects for every point of contact which contributed to the event.
ctrlKeyOptional: A boolean value, defaulting tofalse, indicating if thectrl key was simultaneously pressed.
shiftKeyOptional: A boolean value, defaulting tofalse, indicating if theshift key was simultaneously pressed.
altKeyOptional: A boolean value, defaulting tofalse, indicating if thealt key was simultaneously pressed.
metaKeyOptional: A boolean value, defaulting tofalse, indicating if themeta key was simultaneously pressed.