How to perform click-and-hold operation inside an element using jQuery ?

Last Updated : 31 Jul, 2019

Given an HTML element and the task is to click and hold an element in a document for a few seconds to perform the operation using jQuery. Approach:

Select an HTML element.
Add the event listener to that element and add a timeOut timer for that event.
If that event happens to active for few seconds then trigger other event to identify that the event happens.

Example 1: In this example, clicking and holding inside the div for 2 seconds will trigger other event, which simply prints that event happened.

html

<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html> 

<head> 
    <title> 
        How to perform click-and-hold operation
        inside an element using jQuery ?
    </title>
    
    <style>
        #div {
            background: green;
            height: 100px;
            width: 200px;
            margin: 0 auto;
            color: white;
        }
    </style>
    
    <script src = 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js">
    </script>
</head> 

<body style = "text-align:center;"> 
    
    <h1 style = "color:green;"> 
        GeeksForGeeks 
    </h1>
    
    <p id = "GFG_UP" style = 
        "font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    
    <div id = "div">
        Div Element.
    </div>
    <br>
    
    <p id = "GFG_DOWN" style = 
        "color: green; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    
    <script>
        $('#GFG_UP').text("Click and Hold inside the"
                    + " div for 2 seconds");
        
        var tId = 0;
        
        $('#div').on('mousedown', function() {
            tId = setTimeout(GFG_Fun, 2000);
        }).on('mouseup mouseleave', function() {
            clearTimeout(tId);
        });
        
        function GFG_Fun() {
            $('#GFG_DOWN').text("Click and Hold for 2 "
                    + "seconds, done.");
        }
    </script> 
</body>

</html>

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

Example 2: In this example, clicking and holding inside the body document for 2 seconds will trigger other event, which simply prints that event happened. This example separates the logic of mousedown and mouseup events.

html

<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html> 

<head> 
    <title> 
        How to perform click-and-hold operation
        inside an element using jQuery ?
    </title>
    
    <style>
        #div {
            background: green;
            height: 100px;
            width: 200px;
            margin: 0 auto;
            color: white;
        }
    </style>
    
    <script src = 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js">
    </script>
</head> 

<body style = "text-align:center;"> 
    
    <h1 style = "color:green;"> 
        GeeksForGeeks 
    </h1>
    
    <p id = "GFG_UP" style =
        "font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    
    <div id = "div">
        Div Element.
    </div>
    <br>
    
    <p id = "GFG_DOWN" style = 
        "color: green; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    
    <script>
        $('#GFG_UP').text("Click and Hold inside the"
                    + " div for 2 seconds");
        
        var tId = 0;
        
        $("#div").mousedown(function() {
            tId = setTimeout(GFG_Fun, 2000);
            return false;
        });
        $("#div").mouseup(function() {
            clearTimeout(tId);
        });
        
        function GFG_Fun() {
            $('#GFG_DOWN').text("Click and Hold for 2 "
                    + "seconds, done.");
        }
    </script> 
</body> 

</html>