How to replace click with touchstart on iOS devices

Question

Objective

To close the parent div of an anchor tag when clicked. In the code below, I want to hide div performance_tt when the user

Answer 1

Define a clickhandler that you can use later on:

var clickHandler = ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement ? "touchstart" : "click");

$("a").bind(clickHandler, function(e) {
    alert("clicked or tapped. This button used: " + clickHandler);
});

This will trigger click on non-touch devices and touchstart on touch devices.

When that is said, I will strongly recommend using Fast click instead, and use regular click-events. With the above solution, you will trigger "touchstart" on links when you swipe on it to scroll the page for instance - which is not ideal.