Sometimes, we want to detect long press in JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to detect long press in JavaScript.
How to detect long press in JavaScript?
To detect long press in JavaScript, we can listen for the contextmenu event.
For instance, we write
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', callback);
to call addEventListener to listen for the contextmenu event.
The callback function is called when when the contextmenu event is triggered by long presses.
Conclusion
To detect long press in JavaScript, we can listen for the contextmenu event.