Is there an equivalent to e.PageX position for 'touchstart' event as there is for click event?

Question

I'm trying to get the X position with jQuery of a touchstart event, used with the live function?

I.e.

$('#box').live('touchstart', function(e) { var xPos = e.PageX; } ); 

Now, this does work with 'click' as the event. How on earth (without using the alpha jQuery Mobile) do I get it with a touch event?

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Kinda late, but you need to access the original event, not the jQuery massaged one. Also, since these are multi-touch events, other changes need to be made:

$('#box').live('touchstart', function(e) {   var xPos = e.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX; }); 

If you want other fingers, you can find them in other indices of the touches list.

UPDATE FOR NEWER JQUERY:

$(document).on('touchstart', '#box', function(e) {   var xPos = e.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX; }); 

Answer 2

I use this simple function for JQuery based project

    var pointerEventToXY = function(e){       var out = {x:0, y:0};       if(e.type == 'touchstart' || e.type == 'touchmove' || e.type == 'touchend' || e.type == 'touchcancel'){         var touch = e.originalEvent.touches[0] || e.originalEvent.changedTouches[0];         out.x = touch.pageX;         out.y = touch.pageY;       } else if (e.type == 'mousedown' || e.type == 'mouseup' || e.type == 'mousemove' || e.type == 'mouseover'|| e.type=='mouseout' || e.type=='mouseenter' || e.type=='mouseleave') {         out.x = e.pageX;         out.y = e.pageY;       }       return out;     }; 

example:

$('a').on('mousedown touchstart', function(e){   console.log(pointerEventToXY(e)); // will return obj ..kind of {x:20,y:40} }) 

hope this will be usefull for you ;)