How to determine if the client is a touch device [duplicate]
You can use the following JS function:
function isTouchDevice() { var el = document.createElement('div'); el.setAttribute('ongesturestart', 'return;'); // or try "ontouchstart" return typeof el.ongesturestart === "function";}Source: Detecting touch-based browsing.
Please note the above code only tests if the browser has support for touch, not the device.
Related links:
- Optimize website for touch devices
- What is the best way to detect a mobile device in jQuery?
- What's the best way to detect a 'touch screen' device using JavaScript?
- Mozilla.org Detecting touch: it’s the ‘why’, not the ‘how’
There may be detection in jquery for mobile and jtouch
Include modernizer, which is a tiny feature detection library. Then you can use something like below.
if (Modernizr.touch){ // bind to touchstart, touchmove, etc and watch `event.streamId`} else { // bind to normal click, mousemove, etc}
if ("ontouchstart" in document.documentElement){ alert("It's a touch screen device.");}else{ alert("Others devices");}most simple code i found after browsing a lot here and there