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- Table, column toggle New
- Table, reflow New
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- Transitions
- Collapsibles
- Dynamic collapsible
- Controlgroups
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- Autodividers Selector
- Navigation
- Backbone and Require.js example
- Redirection with server-side support
- Panels
- Panel styling
- Open panel on swipe
- Popups
- Dynamic popup
- Popup with arrow
- Responsive Tables
- Reflow: Custom styles
- Reflow: Heading groups
- Reflow: Refresh method
- Column toggle: Customization options
- Column toggle: Heading groups
- Column toggle: Refresh method
- Column toggle demo: Phone comparison
- Sliders
- Tooltip extension
- Swipe
- Swipe to navigate
- Swipe to delete list item
- Forms
- Why won't my CSS styles apply correctly to a widget?
- Updating the value of enhanced form elements does not work.
- My HTML 5 inputs look different across devices and browsers.
- My range or search inputs are being change to number/text.
- Sometimes my custom select shows as a popup other times its a dialog.
- Disabling a button does not work.
- Controls in my fixed header or footer are not responding or behave erratically.
- Pages
- Why aren't my scripts and styles loading?
- Why isn't DOM ready working for my scripts?
- How do I load a page?
- Why is only the first page of my multi page document loaded?
- I'm trying to pass query params to a page but it's not working?
- I'm trying to pass information via the hash but it's not working?
- I'm trying to use the application cache but it's not working.
- Content injected into a page is not enhanced.
- Triggering create on injected HTML does not work.
- How can I stop JQM from auto-enhancing an element?
- How can I stop JQM from enhancing a block of elements?
- How do I control page titles?
- How do I load a page?
- Events
- How do I use touch and mouse events?
- Theme and styling
- How does theming work?
- Apps
- How do I need to configure PhoneGap/Cordova?

## Question:

# How do I use touch and mouse events?

## Answer:

One important consideration in mobile is handling mouse and touch events. These events differ significantly across mobile platforms, but the common denominator is that click events will work everywhere, but usually after a significant delay of 300-500ms. This delay is necessary for the browser to wait for double tap, scroll and extended hold tap events to potentially occur. To avoid this delay, it's possible to bind to touch events (ex. touchstart) but the issue with this approach is that some mobile platforms (WP7, Blackberry) don't support touch. To compound this issue, some platforms will emit both touch and mouse events so if you bind to both types, duplicate events will be fired for a single interaction.

Our solution is to create a set of virtual events that normalize mouse and touch events. This allows the developer to register listeners for the basic mouse events, such as mousedown, mousemove, mouseup, and click, and the plugin will take care of registering the correct listeners behind the scenes to invoke the listener at the fastest possible time for that device. This still retains the order of event firing in the traditional mouse environment, should multiple handlers be registered on the same element for different events. The virtual mouse system exposes the following virtual events to jQuery bind methods: `vmouseover`, `vmousedown`, `vmousemove`, `vmouseup`, `vclick`, and `vmousecancel`.

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