If you're looking for a more extensive and future-proof way to handle touch-based input, check out the Pressable API.

Do not use unless you have a very good reason. All elements that respond to press should have a visual feedback when touched.

TouchableWithoutFeedback supports only one child. If you wish to have several child components, wrap them in a View. Importantly, TouchableWithoutFeedback works by cloning its child and applying responder props to it. It is therefore required that any intermediary components pass through those props to the underlying React Native component.

Usage Pattern​

function MyComponent(props: MyComponentProps) {
  return (
    <View {...props} style={{flex: 1, backgroundColor: '#fff'}}>
      <Text>My Component</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => alert('Pressed!')}>
  <MyComponent />
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>;

Example​

Reference

Props​

accessibilityIgnoresInvertColors

iOS

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A value indicating this view should or should not be inverted when color inversion is turned on. A value of true will tell the view to not be inverted even if color inversion is turned on.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

accessible​

When true, indicates that the view is an accessibility element. By default, all the touchable elements are accessible.

accessibilityLabel​

Overrides the text that's read by the screen reader when the user interacts with the element. By default, the label is constructed by traversing all the children and accumulating all the Text nodes separated by space.

accessibilityLanguage

iOS

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A value indicating which language should be used by the screen reader when the user interacts with the element. It should follow the BCP 47 specification.

See the iOS accessibilityLanguage doc for more information.

accessibilityHint​

An accessibility hint helps users understand what will happen when they perform an action on the accessibility element when that result is not clear from the accessibility label.

accessibilityRole​

accessibilityRole communicates the purpose of a component to the user of an assistive technology.

accessibilityRole can be one of the following:

• 'none' - Used when the element has no role.
• 'button' - Used when the element should be treated as a button.
• 'link' - Used when the element should be treated as a link.
• 'search' - Used when the text field element should also be treated as a search field.
• 'image' - Used when the element should be treated as an image. Can be combined with button or link, for example.
• 'keyboardkey' - Used when the element acts as a keyboard key.
• 'text' - Used when the element should be treated as static text that cannot change.
• 'adjustable' - Used when an element can be "adjusted" (e.g. a slider).
• 'imagebutton' - Used when the element should be treated as a button and is also an image.
• 'header' - Used when an element acts as a header for a content section (e.g. the title of a navigation bar).
• 'summary' - Used when an element can be used to provide a quick summary of current conditions in the app when the app first launches.
• 'alert' - Used when an element contains important text to be presented to the user.
• 'checkbox' - Used when an element represents a checkbox which can be checked, unchecked, or have mixed checked state.
• 'combobox' - Used when an element represents a combo box, which allows the user to select among several choices.
• 'menu' - Used when the component is a menu of choices.
• 'menubar' - Used when a component is a container of multiple menus.
• 'menuitem' - Used to represent an item within a menu.
• 'progressbar' - Used to represent a component which indicates progress of a task.
• 'radio' - Used to represent a radio button.
• 'radiogroup' - Used to represent a group of radio buttons.
• 'scrollbar' - Used to represent a scroll bar.
• 'spinbutton' - Used to represent a button which opens a list of choices.
• 'switch' - Used to represent a switch which can be turned on and off.
• 'tab' - Used to represent a tab.
• 'tablist' - Used to represent a list of tabs.
• 'timer' - Used to represent a timer.
• 'toolbar' - Used to represent a tool bar (a container of action buttons or components).

accessibilityState​

Describes the current state of a component to the user of an assistive technology.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

accessibilityActions​

Accessibility actions allow an assistive technology to programmatically invoke the actions of a component. The accessibilityActions property should contain a list of action objects. Each action object should contain the field name and label.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

aria-busy​

Indicates an element is being modified and that assistive technologies may want to wait until the changes are complete before informing the user about the update.

aria-checked​

Indicates the state of a checkable element. This field can either take a boolean or the "mixed" string to represent mixed checkboxes.

aria-disabled​

Indicates that the element is perceivable but disabled, so it is not editable or otherwise operable.

aria-expanded​

Indicates whether an expandable element is currently expanded or collapsed.

aria-hidden​

Indicates whether the accessibility elements contained within this accessibility element are hidden.

For example, in a window that contains sibling views A and B, setting aria-hidden to true on view B causes VoiceOver to ignore the elements in the view B.

aria-label​

Defines a string value that labels an interactive element.

aria-live

Android

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Indicates that an element will be updated, and describes the types of updates the user agents, assistive technologies, and user can expect from the live region.

• off Accessibility services should not announce changes to this view.
• polite Accessibility services should announce changes to this view.
• assertive Accessibility services should interrupt ongoing speech to immediately announce changes to this view.

aria-modal

iOS

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Boolean value indicating whether VoiceOver should ignore the elements within views that are siblings of the receiver. Has precedence over the accessibilityViewIsModal prop.

aria-selected​

Indicates whether a selectable element is currently selected or not.

onAccessibilityAction​

Invoked when the user performs the accessibility actions. The only argument to this function is an event containing the name of the action to perform.

See the