jQuery Mobile - Touch Swipe Event

Description

Fires when the user horizontally drag more than 30px over an element using id of the page to specify an event and on() method attaches the event handlers.

Example

Following example describes the use of swipe event in jQuery Mobile Framework.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
   <head>
      <title>Swipe Event</title>
      <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
      
      <script>
         $(document).on("pagecreate","#page1",function() {
            $("p").on("swipe",function() {
               $("span").text("swipe event occurred!!!");
            });
         });
      </script>
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <div data-role = "page" id = "page1">
         <div data-role = "header">
            <h2>Header</h2>
         </div>

         <div data-role = "main" class = "ui-content">
            <p>It will display the text when you swipe here.</p>
            <span style = "color:orange"></span>
         </div>

         <div data-role = "footer">
            <h2>Footer</h2>
         </div>
      
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Let's carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −

Save the above html code as jqm_touch_swipe_event.html file in your server root folder.
Open this HTML file as http://localhost/jqm_touch_swipe_event.html and the following output will be displayed.

jquery_mobile_events.htm