JQuery-Mobile swipe doesn't work when you start on an anchor tag

Question

I have swipeleft/swiperight working well in my app but when the user does the mousedown over an anchor tag, the swiping action is not triggered.

How can I make the swipe work even when the user does the mousedown on an anchor tag?

EDIT: It looks like this is only an issue in browsers on computers - tablets work fine.

Answer 1

You can swipe with the normal left button in any modern browser on the desktop.

Make sure you prevent the default action on the dragstart event on your div.

$("div").bind('dragstart', function(event) {event.preventDefault(); });

I have a working copy here...

http://jsfiddle.net/38nXe/

Answer 2

You can swipe on a desktop browser using the right mouse button. It is not very elegant as it also opens the context menu. But it works everywhere. Alex