touchcancel

The touchcancel event is fired when a touch point has been disrupted in an implementation-specific manner (for example, too many touch points are created).

General info

Specification

Touch Events

Interface

TouchEvent

Bubbles

Yes

Cancelable

No

Target

Document, Element

Default Action

None

Properties

Property	Type	Description
target Read only	EventTarget	The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).
type Read only	DOMString	The type of event.
bubbles Read only	Boolean	Whether the event normally bubbles or not
cancelable Read only	Boolean	Whether the event is cancellable or not?
view Read only	WindowProxy	document.defaultView (window of the document)
detail Read only	long (float)	0.
touches Read only	TouchList	A list of Touches for every point of contact currently touching the surface.
targetTouches Read only	TouchList	A list of Touches for every point of contact that is touching the surface and started on the element that is the target of the current event.
changedTouches Read only	TouchList	A list of Touches for every point of contact which contributed to the event. For the touchstart event this must be a list of the touch points that just became active with the current event. For the touchmove event this must be a list of the touch points that have moved since the last event. For the touchend and touchcancel events this must be a list of the touch points that have just been removed from the surface.
ctrlKey Read only	boolean	true if the control key was down when the event was fired. false otherwise.
shiftKey Read only	boolean	true if the shift key was down when the event was fired. false otherwise.
altKey Read only	boolean	true if the alt key was down when the event was fired. false otherwise.
metaKey Read only	boolean	true if the meta key was down when the event was fired. false otherwise.

Examples

Code samples for those events are available on the dedicated page: Touch events.

Browser compatibility

[1] Touch events were implemented in Gecko 18.0, but removed again in 24.0 (Firefox 24.0 / Thunderbird 24.0 / SeaMonkey 2.21) on the desktop version of Firefox due to web compatibility issues (bug 888304).

[2] As of Gecko 52.0, touch events support has been fixed and reenabled in Windows desktop platforms.

Related Events

• ontouchcancel