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

A mix of native Javascript and jQuery:

var gFireEvent = function (oElem,sEvent) 
{
 try {
 if( typeof sEvent == 'string' && o.isDOM( oElem ))
 {
  var b = !!(document.createEvent),
     evt = b?document.createEvent("HTMLEvents"):document.createEventObject();
  if( b )    
  {  evt.initEvent(sEvent, true, true ); 
    return !oElem.dispatchEvent(evt);
  }
  return oElem.fireEvent('on'+sEvent,evt);
 }
 } catch(e) {}
 return false;
};


// Next you can do is (bIsMob etc you have to determine yourself):

   if( <<< bIsMob || bIsTab || bisTouch >>> )
   {
     $(document).on('mousedown', function(e)
     {
       gFireEvent(e.target,'mouseover' );
     }).on('mouseup', function(e)
     {
       gFireEvent(e.target,'mouseout' );
     });
   }