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W3C Working Draft

Summary

Dispatched when a pointer enters the state of having a non-zero value for the buttons property.


Overview Table

Synchronous Yes
Bubbles Yes
Target dom/Element
Cancelable Yes
Default action Varies: when the pointer is primary, all default actions of the mousedown event

For mouse, this is when the device has at least one button depressed. For touch, this is when there is physical contact with the digitizer. For pen, this is when the pen has physical contact with the digitizer.

For input devices that do not support hover, the user agent also fires a pointerover event preceding the pointerdown event.

Needs Examples: This section should include examples.

Notes

Some pointer devices, such as mouse or pen, support multiple buttons. In the DOM Level 3 Events Mouse Event model, each button press produces a mousedown and mouseup event.

Pointer Events do not fire overlapping pointerdown and pointerup events when an additional button is depressed while another button on the pointer device is already depressed. For detecting these cases, see Chorded Button Interactions in the PointerEvents specification.


Related specifications

Specification Status Related Changes
Pointer Events Working Draft 3.2.2

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: MSPointerDown

See also

Related articles

Pointer Events








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