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    Navigator.maxTouchPoints

    Return the maximum number of simultaneous touch contact points are supported by the current device.

    SyntaxEdit

    touchPoints = navigator.maxTouchPoints;

    ExampleEdit

    if (navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1) {
  // browser supports multi-touch
}
    Specification Status Comment
    Pointer Events – Level 2
    The definition of 'maxTouchPoints' in that specification.    		 Editor's Draft Non-stable version.
    Pointer Events
    The definition of 'maxTouchPoints' in that specification.    		 Recommendation Initial definition.

    Browser compatibilityEdit

    Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
    Basic support 35[1] 29 (29)[2] 10 -ms
    11    		 ? Not supported

    [1] This was implemented in bug 248918.

    [2] Gecko supports this feature behind the preference dom.w3c_pointer_events.enabled, defaulting to false.

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     Contributors to this page: AFBarstow, Sebastianz, teoli, kscarfone, kollishivagangadhar, mkato
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