TouchEvent touches Property

Find out how many fingers that touches the surface:

function countTouches(event) {
var x = event.touches.length;
}

Description

The touches property returns an array of Touch objects, one for each finger that is currently touching the surface.

Note: This property is read-only.

event.touches

Return Value:	An Array of Touch objects.

Return the x- and y-coordinates of the touch:

function showCoordinates(event) {
var x = event.touches[0].clientX;
var y = event.touches[0].clientY;
}

event.touches is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.

It is fully supported in all modern browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11