---
name: useTouch
menu: Hooks
---

import { Playground } from 'docz';
import { useTouch } from '../../../src';

# useTouch

```
const { touched, bind } = useTouch();
```

## Examples

<Playground>
  {() => {
    const { touched, bind } = useTouch();
    const styles = {
      wrapper: {
        height: 300,
        display: 'flex',
        flexDirection: 'column',
        alignItems: 'center',
        justifyContent: 'center',
        cursor: 'pointer',
        backgroundColor: 'white',
        color: 'black',
      },
      emphasis: {
        color: 'tomato',
        textTransform: 'capitalize',
      },
    };
    return (
      <div {...bind} style={styles.wrapper}>
        <p>
          Touch on the white background to change the status, this will work for only touch enabled
          devices.
        </p>
        <p>
          Status: <span style={styles.emphasis}>{String(touched)}</span>
        </p>
      </div>
    );
  }}
</Playground>

## API

useTouch() returns an Object

- touched: [boolean] Status if active or not
- bind [Object] Has `onMouseDown` & `onMouseUp` functions that we can spread to
  the element.