How to check browser for touchstart support using JS/jQuery?
You can detect if the event is supported by:
if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) { //...}Give a look to this article:
The isEventSupported function published there, is really good at detecting a wide variety of events, and it's cross-browser.
Use this code to detect if the device supports touch.
Also work for windows 8 IE10 which uses 'MSPointerDown' event instead of 'touchmove'
var supportsTouch = false;if ('ontouchstart' in window) { //iOS & android supportsTouch = true;} else if(window.navigator.msPointerEnabled) { // Windows // To test for touch capable hardware if(navigator.msMaxTouchPoints) { supportsTouch = true; }}
You could check if typeof document.body.ontouchstart == "undefined" to fall back to normal dom events