onPress and Google Tag Manager

[pidupuis]

The onPress method triggers an event for which the type is press. But it isn't catched by my Google Tag Manager who is catching clicks only.

How would you handle that?
Is there a way for GTM to catch press events? Or should I override the onPress event type to use click instead? Should I override the onPress method to dispatch a click event as well as the press event?

Thanks in advance for your help

[snowystinger]

Any chance you can use capture events for the click? we stop many of those events once we've handled them so we don't handle them again. https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/simple-custom-event-listeners-gtm/

Otherwise, you could wrap usages and fire a custom event for onPress/onPressStart/onPressEnd/onAction/etc, this might be useful because then you can actually track real interactions, not just click events, which sometimes the browser fires additional times for compatibility in certain scenarios.

Examples of where this might be useful
in a MenuTrigger, knowing when a menu has actually been opened. This is different on desktop and mobile (mouse down vs touch up, and the click event wouldn't actually be fired on the trigger in the desktop case as a result)
Menu items, knowing when pressing one has resulted in that action being taken.