How to detect a long press on a div in Jquery?

Question

I would like to execute some function when the user presses for 2 seconds on a div.

Is it possible ?

Here is my code to detect the click on the

Answer 1

Upgrading and merging Editor and Kevin B replies you can have a fully functional, multi divs, hold-catcher with:

    // Global delta msec timeout
    var delta = 1500;

    $("#foo").on('mousedown', function(event) {

        var thisElement = $(event.currentTarget);
        var deltaTimer = setTimeout(function(){

            console.log('long press!');
            thisElement.removeData('startTimestamp');
        }, delta);

        thisElement.data('startTimestamp', new Date().getTime());
        thisElement.data('timer', deltaTimer);
    }).on('mouseleave', function(event) {

        var thisElement = $(event.currentTarget);
        clearTimeout(thisElement.data('timer'));

        thisElement.removeData('startTimestamp');
        thisElement.removeData('timer');
    }).on('mouseup', function(event) {

        var thisElement = $(event.currentTarget);
        var startTimestamp = thisElement.data('startTimestamp');
        clearTimeout(thisElement.data('timer'));

        if (startTimestamp !== undefined && !isNaN(parseInt(startTimestamp))) {

            if (new Date().getTime() >= (startTimestamp + delta))
               console.log('long press!');
            else
               console.log('short press!');
        }

        thisElement.removeData('startTimestamp');
        thisElement.removeData('timer');
    });