MobileSafariClickEventPlugin.js

/**
 * Copyright 2013-2015, Facebook, Inc.
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
 * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
 * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
 *
 * @providesModule MobileSafariClickEventPlugin
 * @typechecks static-only
 */

'use strict';

var EventConstants = require("./EventConstants");

var emptyFunction = require("./emptyFunction");

var topLevelTypes = EventConstants.topLevelTypes;

/**
 * Mobile Safari does not fire properly bubble click events on non-interactive
 * elements, which means delegated click listeners do not fire. The workaround
 * for this bug involves attaching an empty click listener on the target node.
 *
 * This particular plugin works around the bug by attaching an empty click
 * listener on `touchstart` (which does fire on every element).
 */
var MobileSafariClickEventPlugin = {

  eventTypes: null,

  /**
   * @param {string} topLevelType Record from `EventConstants`.
   * @param {DOMEventTarget} topLevelTarget The listening component root node.
   * @param {string} topLevelTargetID ID of `topLevelTarget`.
   * @param {object} nativeEvent Native browser event.
   * @return {*} An accumulation of synthetic events.
   * @see {EventPluginHub.extractEvents}
   */
  extractEvents: function(
      topLevelType,
      topLevelTarget,
      topLevelTargetID,
      nativeEvent) {
    if (topLevelType === topLevelTypes.topTouchStart) {
      var target = nativeEvent.target;
      if (target && !target.onclick) {
        target.onclick = emptyFunction;
      }
    }
  }

};

module.exports = MobileSafariClickEventPlugin;