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

So this is obviously a long way in the future, but for people who want to do this still, a super simple and pretty elegant way to do this is by combining the clearTimeout function with mouseup / mouseout events:

$('#button').mousedown(function(){
   var timer = setTimeout(
   	() => {alert('long press occurred');}, 600
   );
}).mouseup(function(){
    clearTimeout(timer);
}).mouseout(function(){
    clearTimeout(timer);
});

#button {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background-color: blue;
  color: white;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  text-align: center;
  justify-content: center;
}

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