How to implement a onmousedown and onmouseup on a touch screen iphone

Question

I\'ve very new to HTML/Java but am learning...

I want to develop a button on an iphone that runs a java script command when press and when it is released. I\'ve don

Answer 1

You might be interested in onpointerup and onpointerdown events which will work on both touch and non touch devices. Check browser support

Answer 2

The equivalent for onmousedown on touchscreen devices is ontouchstart, and the equivalent of onmouseup is ontouchend.

If you would also like to detect dragging, you could use ontouchmove which is fired every time you move your finger after touching the screen.