How do I simulate a hover with a touch in touch enabled browsers?

Question

With some HTML like this:

Some Text

Then some CSS like this:

p {
  color:black;
}

p:hover {
  color:red         


        

Answer 1

Add this code and then set class "tapHover" to elements which you would like to work this way. First time you tap an element it will gain pseudoclass ":hover" and class "tapped". Click event will be prevented. Second time you tap the same element - click event will be fired.

// Activate only in devices with touch screen
if('ontouchstart' in window)
{
    // this will make touch event add hover pseudoclass
    document.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {}, true);

    // modify click event
    document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
        // get .tapHover element under cursor
        var el = jQuery(e.target).hasClass('tapHover')
            ? jQuery(e.target)
            : jQuery(e.target).closest('.tapHover');

        if(!el.length)
            return;

        // remove tapped class from old ones
        jQuery('.tapHover.tapped').each(function() {
            if(this != el.get(0))
                jQuery(this).removeClass('tapped');
        });

        if(!el.hasClass('tapped'))
        {
            // this is the first tap
            el.addClass('tapped');
            e.preventDefault();
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            // second tap
            return true;
        }
    }, true);
}

.box {
	float:		left;
	
	display:	inline-block;
	margin:		50px 0 0 50px;
	width:		100px;
	height:		100px;
	overflow:	hidden;
	
	font-size:	20px;
	
	border:		solid 1px black;
}
.box.tapHover {
	background:	yellow;
}
.box.tapped {
	border:		solid 3px red;
}
.box:hover {
	background:	red;
}