javascript - Is there a pointer event that equals to 'click' event?

Question

The 'click' event is a mouse event which fires after both the mousedown and mouseup events have fired.

Now pointer event has a broader use case, so I wonder if there is a corresponding 'click' event for pointer event also?

Thanks. Andy

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65928782/is-there-a-pointer-event-that-equals-to-click-event

Answer 1

As to the question: Is there a pointer event that's equivalent to the click event?

The answer is no.

As to the question: Does a pointer press dispatch a click event?

Answering that may take some testing.

Using a little test page that reports every pointer event and click event, I obtained the following events for a single finger press on an iPhone:

16:01:45.416 - pointerover - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.417 - pointerenter - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.418 - pointerdown - width: 48.5, height: 48.5
16:01:45.601 - pointerup - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.602 - pointerout - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.602 - pointerleave - width: 0.0, height: 0.0
16:01:45.636 - click - width: NaN, height: NaN

(the width and height values report the size of the pointer tip, which in this case is a finger)

So it seems that at least on an iPhone, a click event is dispatched with a finger press.