jQuery UI Touch Punch - A Small Hack To Use Touch Events On Sites Using jQuery UI Library

jQuery UI Touch Punch is a small hack that enables the use of touch events on sites using the jQuery UI library.

Currently, jQuery UI user interface library does not support the use of touch events in their widgets and interactions. This means that the slick UI you designed and tested in your desktop browser will fail on most, if not all, touch-enabled mobile devices, becuase jQuery UI listens to mouse events—mouseover, mousemove and mouseout—not touch events—touchstart, touchmove and touchend.

That's where jQuery UI Touch Punch comes in. Touch Punch works by using simulated events to map touch events to their mouse event analogs. Simply include the script on your page and your touch events will be turned into their corresponding mouse events to which jQuery UI will respond as expected.

As I said, Touch Punch is a hack. It duck punches some of jQuery UI's core functionality to handle the mapping of touch events. Touch Punch works with all basic implementations of jQuery UI's interactions and widgets. However, you may find more complex cases where Touch Punch fails. If so, scroll down to learn how you can file and/or fix issues.

jQuery UI Touch Punch has been tested on iPad, iPhone, Android and other touch-enabled mobile devices.


Requirements: jQuery, jQuery UI
Demo: http://touchpunch.furf.com/
License: MIT License or GPLv2

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