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

My personal taste is to attribute the :hover styles to the :focus state as well, like:

p {
    color: red;
}

p:hover, p:focus {
    color: blue;
}

Then with the following HTML:

WOOOO

And the following JavaScript:

$("#some-p-tag").on("touchstart", function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    var $elem = $(this);

    if($elem.is(":focus")) {
        //this can be registered as a "click" on a mobile device, as it's a double tap
        $elem.blur()
    }
    else {
        $elem.focus();
    }
});