Element: dblclick event
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The dblclick event fires when a pointing device button (such as a mouse's primary button) is double-clicked; that is, when it's rapidly clicked twice on a single element within a very short span of time.
dblclick fires after two click events (and by extension, after two pairs of mousedown and mouseup events).
Syntax
Use the event name in addEventListener():
js
addEventListener("dblclick", (event) => { })
Alternatively, assign to the event handler property of the interface:
js
ondblclick = (event) => { }
Event type
A MouseEvent. Inherits from UIEvent and Event.
Examples
This example toggles the size of a card when you double click on it.
JavaScript
js
const card = document.querySelector("aside");
card.addEventListener("dblclick", (e) => {
card.classList.toggle("large");
});
HTML
html
<aside>
<h3>My Card</h3>
<p>Double click to resize this object.</p>
</aside>
CSS
css
aside {
background: #ffee99;
border-radius: 1em;
display: inline-block;
padding: 1em;
transform: scale(0.9);
transform-origin: 0 0;
transition: transform 0.6s;
user-select: none;
}
.large {
transform: scale(1.3);
}
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Pointer Events> # dblclick> |
| HTML> # handler-ondblclick> |