HTML | DOM TouchEvent targetTouches Property

Last Updated : 31 Jan, 2019

The TouchEvent targetTouches property is a read-only property and used for returning an array of Touch objects. It returns one object for each finger that is touching the current target element.

Syntax :

event.targetTouches

Below program illustrates the TouchEvent targetTouches property :

Example: Finding out the number of fingers that touch an element.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<meta name="viewport" 
      content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 
  
<head> 
    <title> TouchEvent targetTouches property in HTML 
  </title> 
    
    <style> 
        #samplediv { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h2 { 
            font-family: Impact; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body ontouchstart="countTouches(event)" 
      ontouchend="countTouches(event)"> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2> TouchEvent targetTouches property </h2> 
    <br> 
  
    <p>The current element is touched by  
      <span id="touch">0</span> fingers.</p> 
  
    <script> 
        function countTouches(event) { 
            
            //  Returning touched target. 
            var t = event.targetTouches.length; 
            document.getElementById("touch").innerHTML = 
              t; 
        } 
    </script> 
  
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

After touching the screen:

Supported Browsers:

Opera
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Firefox
Apple Safari

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