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Is there a better way to handle a "hover" event on touch devices?

Is there a better way to handle a "hover" (this tapped, then effect active until something else is tapped) event on touch devices than using a global event handler to detect when the user taps something else?
For example, this code might work, but it relies on an event listener attached to the document body, so it's questionable performance-wise.
//note a namespace is used on the event to clear it without clearing all event listeners
$('myDiv').on('touchstart.temp', function () {
//do stuff
$('body').not(this).on('touchstart.temp', function () {
//undo stuff
$('body').not(this).off('touchstart.temp');
});
});

In the future you should be able to use the touchenter and touchleave events, which apply to specific elements.
$("myDiv").on("touchenter mouseover", function() {
// do hover start code
}).on("touchleave mouseleave", function() {
// do hover end code
});
But according to MDN, this is just a proposal which hasn't been implemented yet.
If you use jQuery Mobile, you can use the vmouseover and vmouseleave events, which simulate the mouse events on mobile devices.

The Javascript onmouseover and onmouseout events work just fine! :)
It won't work on mobile devices, but I believe you anticipated that.
Edit: I also noticed you included the JQuery tag. You could also use the JQuery hover method if it is to your liking.
i.e.
$('div').hover(function(){
$(this).css('background-color', 'red');
}, function(){
$(this).css('background-color', 'blue');
});
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/sofdz0s2/
As for hovering on all touch devices, it is not constant between all touch devices. Mine does not keep hovering after a tap. (I tried tapping on the div that changes and then on the green div, but it kept hovering after a tap.)
Edit 2:
As talked about in the comments, touchenter and touchleave are probably what you want.
I hope this helps!

Is it possible for an element to only listen to click events and ignore events like mouse movement?

My problem is the following: I have a div, which has some crucial mouse events I need to fetch. These are onMouseOver to be more precise.
However, when the mouse hover over this div, I am creating a few buttons on this div, which are then leading to misbehavious of my onMouseOver event, as they are overlaying the div, and as soon as the mouse is being moved onto those buttons, it "leaves" the div and the event stops triggering.
So, I want to be able to ignore mouse movement on these buttons, but I still want to grab the click event when someone clicks the buttons, of course.
The closest I've found so far was
pointer-event: none
, but that also disables click events.
Is there something else I could use to achieve this?
Thanks in advance

You should use mouseenter and mouseleave events if using jQuery. mouseover and mouseout functions do not bubble from child to parent, so you end up triggering a mouseout event when you hover the child elements.

You can always attach onmouseover event to these buttons and put in the same function as for div.
Even if You ignores onmouseover on this buttons You will lost onmouseover on the div.

You can use preventdefault(). after that you can write your own code
$("a").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//You can write other code what you want to write
});
This code may help you to get override the other code
or you may use e.stopPropagation() in stead of e.preventDefault(); it will stop all other active events

Blur event stops click event from working?

It appears that the Blur event stops the click event handler from working? I have a combo box where the options only appear when the text field has focus. Choosing an option link should cause an event to occur.
I have a fiddle example here: http://jsfiddle.net/uXq5p/6/
To reproduce:
Select the text box
Links appear
Click a link
The blur even occurs and the links disappear
Nothing else happens.
Expected behavior:
On step 5, after blur occurs, the click even should also then fire. How do I make that happen?
UPDATE:
After playing with this for a while, it seems that someone has gone to great lengths to prevent an already-occurred click event from being handled if a blur event makes the clicked element Un-clickable.
For example:
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('left','-20px');
works just fine, but
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('left','-2000px');
prevents the click event.
This appears to be a bug in Firefox, since making an element un-clickable should prevent future clicks, but not cancel ones that have already occurred when it could be clicked.
Other things that prevent the click event from processing:
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('z-index','-20');
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('display','none');
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('visibility','hidden');
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('opacity','.5');
I've found a few other questions on this site that are having similar problems. There seem to be two solutions floating around:
Use a delay. This is bad because it creates a race condition between the hiding and the click event handler. Its also sloppy.
Use the mousedown event. But this isn't a great solution either since click is the correct event for a link. The behavior of mousedown is counter-intuitive from a UX perspective, particularly since you can't cancel the click by moving the mouse off the element before releasing the button.
I can think of a few more.
3.Use mouseover and mouseout on the link to enable/disable the blur event for the field. This doesn't work with keyboard tabing since the mouse is not involved.
4.The best solution would be something like:
$('#ShippingGroup').blur(function()
{
if($(document.activeElement) == $('.ShippingGroupLinkList'))
return; // The element that now has focus is a link, do nothing
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('display','none'); // hide it.
}
Unfortunately, $(document.activeElement) seems to always return the body element, not the one that was clicked. But maybe if there was a reliable way to know either 1. which element now has focus or two, which element caused the blur (not which element is blurring) from within the blur handler. Also, is there any other event (besides mousedown) that fires before blur?

click event triggers after the blur so the link gets hidden. Instead of click use mousedown it will work.
$('.ShippingGroupLinkList').live("mousedown", function(e) {
alert('You wont see me if your cursor was in the text box');
});
Other alternative is to have some delay before you hide the links on blur event. Its upto you which approach to go for.
Demo

You could try the mousedown event instead of click.
$('.ShippingGroupLinkList').live("mousedown", function(e) {
alert('You wont see me if your cursor was in the text box');
});
This is clearly not the best solution as a mousedown event is not achieved the same way for the user than a click event. Unfortunately, the blur event will cancel out mouseup events as well.

Performing an action that should happen on a click on a mousedown is bad UX. Instead, what's a click effectively made up of? A mousedown and a mouseup.
Therefore, stop the propagation of the mousedown event in the mousedown handler, and perform the action in the mouseup handler.
An example in ReactJS:
<a onMouseDown={e => e.preventDefault()}
onMouseUp={() => alert("CLICK")}>
Click me!
</a>

4.The best solution would be something like:
$('#ShippingGroup').blur(function()
{
if($(document.activeElement) == $('.ShippingGroupLinkList'))
return; // The element that now has focus is a link, do nothing
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('display','none'); // hide it.
}
Unfortunately, $(document.activeElement) seems to always return the
body element, not the one that was clicked. But maybe if there was a
reliable way to know either 1. which element now has focus or two,
which element caused the blur (not which element is blurring) from
within the blur handler.
What you may be looking for is e.relatedTarget. So when clicking the link, e.relatedTarget should get populated with the link element, so in your blur handler, you can choose not to hide the container if the element clicked is within the container (or compare it directly with the link):
$('#ShippingGroup').blur(function(e)
{
if(!e.relatedTarget || !e.currentTarget.contains(e.relatedTarget)) {
// Alt: (!e.relatedTarget || $(e.relatedTarget) == $('.ShippingGroupLinkList'))
$('#ShippingGroupListWrapper').css('display','none'); // hide it.
}
}
(relatedTarget may not be supported in older browsers for blur events, but it appears to work in latest Chrome, Firefox, and Safari)

If this.menuTarget.classList.add("hidden") is the blur behavior that hides the clickable menu, then I succeeded by waiting 100ms before invoking it.
setTimeout(() => {
this.menuTarget.classList.add()
}, 100)
This allowed the click event to be processed upon the menuTarget DOM before it was hidden.

I know this is a later reply, but I had this same issue, and a lot of these solutions didn't really work in my scenario. mousedown is not functional with forms, it can cause the enter key functionality to change on the submit button. Instead, you can set a variable _mouseclick true in the mousedown, check it in the blur, and preventDefault() if it's true. Then, in the mouseup set the variable false. I did not see issues with this, unless someone can think of any.

I have faced a similar issue while using jQuery blur, click handlers where I had an input name field and a Save button. Used blur event to populate name into a title placeholder. But when we click save immediately after typing the name, only the blur event gets fired and the save btn click event is disregarded.
The hack I used was to tap into the event object we get from blur event and check for event.relatedTarget.
PFB the code that worked for me:
$("#inputName").blur(function (event) {
title = event.target.value;
//since blur stops an immediate click event from firing - Firing click event here
if (event.relatedTarget ? event.relatedTarget.id == "btnSave" : false) {
saveBtn();
}
});
$("#btnSave").click(SaveBtn)
As already discussed in this thread - this is due to blur event blocking click event when fired simultaneously. So I have a click event registered for Save Btn calling a function which is also called when blur event's related Target is the Save button to compensate for the click event not firing.
Note: Didnt notice this issue while using native onclick and onblur handlers - tested in html.

jquery - perform effect on any event

i have 5 elements in a page.
i have selected them using class names $('.class')
i am trying to perform a function for those selected elements irrespective of event (click or hover or watever).
eg:
$('.class').hover(function(){definition1});
$('.class').click(function(){definition1});
i dont want to have 2 seperate event as above 2, instead i want the function to be executed irrespective of whether its hover or click event.

$('.class').bind('click mouseenter', function() {
// Go nuts.
});
(if using jQuery >= 1.7, swap bind() with on().)
Keep in mind that hover()'s second argument is for mouseleave event, which you haven't written anything for here.
If you want to cover most events, pass in 'blur focus focusin focusout load resize scroll unload click dblclick mousedown mouseup mousemove mouseover mouseout mouseenter mouseleave change select submit keydown keypress keyup error' as the first argument.
You could also try to detect them with code by iterating over properties that start with on, but it sounds too flaky to me.

To bind multiple events to one element in jQuery 1.7 and later you can do the following by separating event names by spaces:
jQuery('.class').on('click hover mousenter mouseleave', function(event){
// do what you need to do
});
which you can see in jsfiddle.
But: be careful, because you can easily fire the event too much times (more than necessary and more than enough). By binding so many events some may be called unnecessarily (as in the example above the code will be fired twice when the mouse cursor will leave the element it hovered over).

If you do not want to exec a function without any event put it in
$(function(){
function test(){definition1}
});
then in html
<body onload="test();">

How to stop toggle event from being fired multiple times on mouseenter/mouseleave?

I'm using jQuery to toggle the visibility of a <div> using the jQuery toggle method. The toggle is fired on the mouseenter and mouseleave event, thus creating the effect of the div to fold out on mouseenter and fold in on mouseleave. Problem is, if the user drags the mouse over the <div> a few times and then leaves the <div>, the div will toggle in and out several times. This can happen if the user accidentally moves around the mouse pointer in the <div> are. Do anyone have any idea on how I can avoid this behavior?
Thanx!

Two things:
If you're going to use both mouseenter and mouseleave I'd suggest using the hover() function; and
When using triggered animations it's a good habit to get into to use the stop() method.
So:
$("div.someclass").hover(function() {
$("...").stop().fadeIn("slow");
}, function() {
$("...").stop().fadeOut("slow");
});
Note: replace "..." with the appropriate selector for what you're toggling and use the appropriate effect (I'm using fade here). Also, this in an event handler refers to the source of the event.

You can use the more common mouseover/mouseout events to get a hover event that doesn't fire on internal mouse movements.
But don't use toggle on a mouse event, it can easily go wrong if eg. the mouse is over the element at page load time, or the mouse leaves the browser (which can allow the mouse to leave the bounds of the element without firing a mouseout). Have separate function for over which shows the content, and out which hides it.
Better: just use the hover() method which is meant for exactly this purpose.

Aside from the correct answer by Cletus, i'd like to point out that using mouseenter and mouseleave events is not wrong. The trick only resides into the stop() method, in fact we could still do:
$("div.someclass").on("mouseenter", function() {
$("...").stop().fadeIn("slow");
});
$("div.someclass").on("mouseleave", function() {
$("...").stop().fadeOut("slow");
});
Here is a jsFiddle example :)