clicked

Configurable vanilla handler for clicks, double-clicks, and/or long-clicks that works for both mouse and touch

changes in version 4

• ported code to typescript
• added options.mouse to select which mouse buttons are active (if any)
• added options.touch to select whether touch is active and how many touch points are allowed
• removed rollup and compiled using tsc
• improved demo

usage

import { clicked } from 'clicked'

or

const clicked = require('clicked').clicked

demo

https://davidfig.github.io/clicked/

rationale

I wanted to create a vanilla javascript way to handle mouse and touch clicks, double-clicks, and long-clicks.

example

import { clicked } from 'clicked'
 
function handleClick()
{
   console.log('I was clicked.')
}
const div = document.getElementById('clickme')
const c = clicked(div, handleClick, { threshold: 15 })
 
// change callback
c.callback = () => console.log('different clicker')
 
// destroy
c.destroy()
 
// using built-in querySelector
clicked('#clickme', handleClick2)
 
// support for all types of clicks
function handleAllClicks(e) {
    switch (e.type)
    {
        case 'clicked': ...
        case 'double-clicked': ...
        case 'long-clicked': ...
    }
    // view UIEvent that caused callback
    console.log(e.event)
}
clicked('#clickme', handleAllClicks, { doubleClick: true, longClick: true })

API

clicked(element, callback, options) : Clicked

creates Clicked object for element

name	type	default	description
element	HTMLElement or string		element or querySelector entry (e.g., #id-name or .class-name)
callback	ClickedCallback		callback called after clicked
[options]	object		optional options
[options].clicked	boolean	true	dispatch event for clicked
[options].threshold	number	10	threshold of movement to cancel all events
[options.mouse]	boolean or 'left' or 'right' 'middle' or 'left-right' or 'left-middle' or 'right-middle'	true	whether to listen for mouse events; can also be used to set which mouse buttons are active
[options.touch]	boolean or number	1	whether to listen for touch events; can also be used to set the number of touch points to accept
[options.doubleClick]	boolean	false	dispatch events for double click
[options.doubleClickTime]]	number	500	wait time in millseconds for double click
[options.longClick]]	boolean	false	enable watcher for long click
[options.longClickTime]]	boolean	500	wait time for long click
[options.clickDown]	boolean	dispatch event for click down (ie, after touchstart or mousedown callback will be called with type 'click-down')
[options.capture]	boolean	false	events will be dispatched to this registered listener before being dispatched to any EventTarget beneath it in the DOM tree

Clicked

returned by clicked(...)

Clicked.destroy()

removes event listeners on element

Clicked.callback (function): ClickedCallback

name	type	description
event	MouseEvent or TouchEvent	mouse or touch event that triggered callback
type	'clicked' or 'double-clicked' or 'long-clicked' or 'click-down'	type of click

Clicked.cancel()

cancel any outstanding events

demo

yarn demo

Open browser to https://localhost:1234/

license

MIT License
(c) 2020 YOPEY YOPEY LLC by David Figatner