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W3C Working Draft

Summary

Dispatched when either (1) the user agent has determined that a pointer is unlikely to continue to produce events (e.g., due to a hardware event), or (2) after having fired the pointerdown event, the pointer is subsequently used to manipulate the page viewport (e.g., panning or zooming).

Overview Table

Synchronous	Yes
Bubbles	Yes
Target	dom/Element
Cancelable	Yes
Default action	None

A user agent will also fire a pointerout event after firing the pointercancel event.

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Usage

This event occurs when the pointer (touch or pen contact) is removed from the system. Here are common reasons why this might happen:

• A touch contact is canceled by a pen coming into range of the surface.
• The device doesn't report an active contact for more than 100ms.
• A mapping for a device's monitor changes while contacts are active. For example, the user changes the position of a screen in a two screen configuration.
• The desktop is locked or the user logged off.
• The number of simultaneous contacts exceeds the number that the device can support. For example, if a device supports only two contact points, if the user has two fingers on a surface, and then touches it with a third finger, this event is raised.

Related specifications

Specification	Status	Related Changes
Pointer Events	Working Draft	3.2.4

Compatibility

Desktop

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic Support	?	?	? IE10 -ms	?	?

Mobile

Feature	Android	BlackBerry	Chrome for mobile	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Mobile	Opera Mobile	Opera Mini	Safari Mobile
Basic support	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Compatibility notes

Browser	Version	Note
Internet Explorer	10	Supported as: MSPointerCancel

See also

Related articles

Pointer Events

• touch-action

• PointerEvent

• gotpointercapture

• lostpointercapture

• maxTouchPoints

• pointerEnabled

• pointercancel

• pointerdown

• pointerenter

• pointerleave

• pointermove

• pointerout

• pointerover

• pointerup

• releasePointerCapture

• setPointerCapture

• Introduction to multi-touch Web development

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