How to check browser for touchstart support using JS/jQuery?

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You can detect if the event is supported by:

if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) {
  //...
}

Give a look to this article:

The isEventSupported function published there, is really good at detecting a wide variety of events, and it’s cross-browser.

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