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copied!<p>You need to write your own triple-click implementation because no native event exists to capture 3 clicks in a row. Fortunately, modern browsers have <code>event.detail</code>, which the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/click#Properties">MDN documentation describes as</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A count of consecutive clicks that happened in a short amount of time, incremented by one.</p> </blockquote> <p>This means you can simply check the value of this property and see if it is <code>3</code>:</p> <pre><code>window.addEventListener('click', function (evt) { if (evt.detail === 3) { alert('triple click!'); } }); </code></pre> <blockquote> <p><strong>Working demo: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/L6d0p4jo/">http://jsfiddle.net/L6d0p4jo/</a></strong></p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>If you need support for IE 8, the best approach is to capture a double-click, followed by a triple-click — something like this, for example:</p> <pre><code>var timer, // timer required to reset timeout = 200; // timer reset in ms window.addEventListener("dblclick", function (evt) { timer = setTimeout(function () { timer = null; }, timeout); }); window.addEventListener("click", function (evt) { if (timer) { clearTimeout(timer); timer = null; executeTripleClickFunction(); } }); </code></pre> <blockquote> <p><b>Working demo: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/YDFLV/">http://jsfiddle.net/YDFLV/</a> </b></p> </blockquote> <p>The reason for this is that old IE browsers will not fire two consecutive click events for a double click. Don't forget to use <code>attachEvent</code> in place of <code>addEventListener</code> for IE 8.</p>

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