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Document: pointerdown event

The pointerdown event is fired when a pointer becomes active. For mouse, it is fired when the device transitions from no buttons depressed to at least one button depressed. For touch, it is fired when physical contact is made with the digitizer. For pen, it is fired when the stylus makes physical contact with the digitizer.

Note: For touchscreen browsers that allow direct manipulation, a pointerdown event triggers implicit pointer capture, which causes the target to capture all subsequent pointer events as if they were occurring over the capturing target. Accordingly, pointerover, pointerenter, pointerleave, and pointerout will not fire as long as this capture is set. The capture can be released manually by calling element.releasePointerCapture on the target element, or it will be implicitly released after a pointerup or pointercancel event.

Bubbles Yes
Cancelable Yes
Interface PointerEvent
Event handler property onpointerdown

Examples

Using addEventListener():

document.addEventListener('pointerdown', (event) => {
  console.log('Pointer down event');
});

Using the onpointerdown event handler property:

document.onpointerdown = (event) => {
  console.log('Pointer down event');
};

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
pointerdown_event
55
12
12-79
59
11
10
42
13
55
55
79
42
13
6.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/pointerdown_event