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

Simple. No need for long uneccesary coding.

(function(){
    // how many milliseconds is a long press?
    var offset = 500;

    $(".button").on('mousedown', function(e){
        // holds the start time
        $(this).data('start',new Date().getTime());
        $(this).addClass("selected");
    }).on('mouseup', function(e){
        if (new Date().getTime() >= ($(this).data('start') + offset)){
            //alert('ur click lasted for over 2 secs');
            $(this).addClass("selected");
        }else{
            $(this).removeClass("selected");
        }
    }).on('mouseleave', function(e){
        start = 0;
        //you can add destroy lingering functions on mouse leave
    });

}());

http://jsfiddle.net/donddoug/8D4nJ/