Element: dblclick event

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():

addEventListener("dblclick", (event) => { })

Alternatively, assign to the event handler property of the interface:

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

const card = document.querySelector("aside");

card.addEventListener("dblclick", (e) => {
  card.classList.toggle("large");
});

HTML

<aside>
  <h3>My Card</h3>
  <p>Double click to resize this object.</p>
</aside>

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

Browser compatibility

See also

• Learn: Introduction to events
• auxclick
• click
• contextmenu
• mousedown
• mouseup
• pointerdown
• pointerup