The pressure read-only property of the PointerEvent interface indicates the normalized pressure of the pointer input.
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PointerEvent: pressure property
Value
The normalized pressure of the pointer input in the range of 0 to 1, inclusive, where 0 and 1 represent the minimum and maximum pressure the hardware is capable of detecting, respectively. For hardware that does not support pressure, such as a mouse, the value is 0.5 when the pointer is active buttons state and 0 otherwise.
Examples
In this snippet, when a pointerdown event is fired, different functions are called depending on the value of the event's pressure property.
js
someElement.addEventListener(
"pointerdown",
(event) => {
if (event.pressure === 0) {
// No pressure
process_no_pressure(event);
} else if (event.pressure === 1) {
// Maximum pressure
process_max_pressure(event);
} else {
// Default
process_pressure(event);
}
},
false,
);
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Pointer Events # dom-pointerevent-pressure |
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
pressure |
55 | 12 | 59 | 11
10Returns 0 instead of 0.5 on hardware that doesn't support pressure. |
42 | 13 | 55 | 55 | 79 | 42 | 13 | 6.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PointerEvent/pressure