---
title: TouchEvent
framework: webkitjs
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: webkitjs/touchevent
---

# TouchEvent

The TouchEvent class encapsulates information about a touch event.

## Declaration

```data
interface TouchEvent
```

## Overview

Overview The system continually sends TouchEvent objects to an application as fingers touch and move across a surface. A touch event provides a snapshot of all touches during a multi-touch sequence, most importantly the touches that are new or have changed for a particular target. A multi-touch sequence begins when a finger first touches the surface. Other fingers may subsequently touch the surface, and all fingers may move across the surface. The sequence ends when the last of these fingers is lifted from the surface. An application receives touch event objects during each phase of any touch. The different types of TouchEvent objects that can occur are: TouchEvent objects are combined together to form high-level GestureEvent objects that are also sent during a multi-touch sequence. See GestureEvent for details on GestureEvent objects and an example of the events sent for a two finger multi-touch gesture.

## Topics

### Accessing Properties

- [altKey](webkitjs/touchevent/1633489-altkey.md)
- [ctrlKey](webkitjs/touchevent/1629120-ctrlkey.md)
- [metaKey](webkitjs/touchevent/1632828-metakey.md)
- [shiftKey](webkitjs/touchevent/1634033-shiftkey.md)
- [changedTouches](webkitjs/touchevent/1629351-changedtouches.md)
- [targetTouches](webkitjs/touchevent/1632803-targettouches.md)
- [touches](webkitjs/touchevent/1632644-touches.md)
- [rotation](webkitjs/touchevent/1634480-rotation.md)
- [scale](webkitjs/touchevent/1632169-scale.md)

### Initializing

- [initTouchEvent](webkitjs/touchevent/1631943-inittouchevent.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [UIEvent](webkitjs/uievent.md)