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In HTML5: hardware-agnostic events from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen. In CSS: a property specifying if a particular graphic element can become the target of mouse events.

Learn more about HTML5 pointer events:

Learn more about CSS pointer-events property:

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PointerEvents: Detect touching "through" an element

Using pointer events, I can't find the right event to trigger for finger-based touches on smartphones (tested with Chrome Android and Chrome Devtools with mobile emulation). What I need: A "hover" event if you touch action passes through an element…
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pointerup event does not fire for mouse actions on a link when pointermove has been detected

I can't get the pointerup event to fire on a link (an A tag with a href attribtue set) for event.pointerType == 'mouse' if the mouse was moved between pointerdown and pointerup. I have the following scenario: var lastEvent = false; var handler =…
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How can I access the precision touchpad pointer events releeased in edgeHTML 17

I'm developing a game in canvas that interprets "wheel" events as a command to zoom in/out on the scene. I was playtesting in Edge on my laptop when I realized that Edge was not firing "wheel" events while 2-finger scrolling on my precision…
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How to stop scrolling only on using pen/stylus and not on finger touch

I'm working on a web app which needs to prevent scrolling on using a stylus but still allow scrolling on swiping the screen with a finger. The problem I'm running into is that only the pointerstart event can distinguish between a finger touch and…
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Youtube iframe not responding to clicks passed through image above with pointer-events: none

http://jsfiddle.net/aintnobody/0L1yumpe/ vs the same code on http://www.aintnobodymusic.com/monkey The issue: On the fiddle, everything works as it should. The image above in all cases is ignored via pointer-events: none, and the click passes…
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Click-through with hover effect in CSS

I'm trying to make a button without a link, as the background is already linked. Therefore you should be able to cick through it. I know about pointer-events:none but when using this, the div's :hover won't work anymore. Is there any way to achieve…
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Dynamically prevent page scrolling on pointerdown event

I use canvas to paint objects that can be dragged around. If user touches an area with no objects, he can scroll the page. I have a working touch events implementation and have trouble adding PointerEvents API support. With touch events API I use…
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how to stop only the hover pointer event in css

I have an interactive background that uses css to change opacity on hover. On top of this (absolute positioned) is a text layer. In order to allow for the background to react even with the text on top I have added css pointer-event:none to the div…
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Using W3C PointerEvent API and be able to detect a double click?

Writing a rich web application I have the need to support all types of users, some are using a mouse, some are using a touch screen (e.g. on a mobile device). So the W3C PointerEvent API is exactly what I need to handle the user interactions. This…
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How to allow highlighting of HTML text when covered by transparent div?

I have a React application in which I have a transparent div covering text. The transparent div acts as a dropzone for draggable elements. There are also some children elements that may contain some text. ...

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How can I debug/emulate Pointer Events?

I'd like to support multi touch and pen/stylus input for my application using Pointer Events. Is there a way to debug touch/pen input on a desktop without any input hardware like this? I would like to emulate several situations, like hovering with a…
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Pinch/zoom with pointer events in Javascript clarification

The pinch/zoom example on MDN using PointerEvents looks easy enough, yet looking a bit closer, I wonder about the following. If two touching fingers are moved simultaneously with fixed distance, I assume the browser will generate interleaved pointer…
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Pointer events API inconsistency

When you perform the following sequence of interactions with a mouse on a PC: Left mouse down Right mouse down Left mouse up Right mouse up The events reported are: Left down Right up As opposed to the expected: Left down Right down Left…
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Why does a mouse right click fire the "pointerdown" event when pressed down but not the "pointerup" event when released?

I'm using pointerevents rather than mouse events to be able to have a universal pointer solution, rather than having to separately consider touch vs mouse events etc. The problem is that when I press the right mouse button, the pointerdown event is…
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mapbox storytelling click through div

There is a mapbox scrollytelling https://demos.mapbox.com/scrollytelling/. I need to acceess map(mouse click and mousemove), but can't access it. I have tried with pointer-events:none to parent layer(does not work for me, I applied it to almost…
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