Would onClick event work on touch on touch-screen devices?

Question

I\'ve used onclick events in my website. But when I open it in google chromes\' developer mode\'s mobile view, nothing happens on touch on the elements which wo

Answer 1

onclick may not work on touch devices, I had this issue and the event ontouchstart sorts it. if you use ontouchstart and onclick watch that you don't trigger the event twice.

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Answer 2

onclick works fine on touchscreens; I've used it several times and have never had any problem.

You could consider using onmousedown instead of onclick. Or use jQuery to detect taps.