Question

I’ve a series of list items. On an iphone (touch device), as a user touches and moves his finger across the screen, I want to capture all the html li elements that he has touched.

So how do I get that? Say I want to get all the ids of those elements and alert is when the touch ends.

I tried with jQuery Mobile with “swipe’ event but only the first one to be touched, that too if the ‘touch’ starts from that particular element shows up.

Answer 1

Not sure if this will work on a mobile device unless you disable scrolling.

Works for desktop and kinda on my iPhone

• http://jsfiddle.net/dYkcE/4/
• http://jsfiddle.net/dYkcE/5/

JS

// List of events: http://api.jquery.com/category/events/
// tap taphold swipe swiperight swipeleft
// click change dblclick submit
function bindEvents(element) {
    element.bind('mouseenter', function(event) {
        //alert('Element Id: '+$(element).attr('id')+' Event: '+event.type);
        console.log('Element Id: '+$(element).attr('id')+' Event: '+event.type);
    });
}

$('#theList li').each(function(){
    bindEvents($(this));
});

HTML

<div data-role="page" class="type-home">
    <div data-role="content">

        <ul id="theList" data-role="listview" data-inset="true" data-theme="c" data-dividertheme="f">
            <li id="list-d" data-role="list-divider">Items</li>
            <li id="list-item-1"><a href="#">List Item 1</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-2"><a href="#">List Item 2</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-3"><a href="#">List Item 3</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-4"><a href="#">List Item 4</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-5"><a href="#">List Item 5</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-6"><a href="#">List Item 6</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-7"><a href="#">List Item 7</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-8"><a href="#">List Item 8</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-9"><a href="#">List Item 9</a></li>
            <li id="list-item-10"><a href="#">List Item 10</a></li>
        </ul>

    </div>
</div>

I’m sure you could bind multiple events and log them to find the right combo you’re looking for.