I am new to building apps with monaca. I have built a lot of websites with css and html , so am very familiar with the language .
Anyway , when i give a background image to the navigation bar with css like this
background: url(img/header.png);
it works in the preview emulator, but when i run/sync it with my phone the image doesnt show on it. i am running it on my samsung galaxy s5
I am beginning to wonder if theres a right way of doing it on monaca.
Try to add this property to the style of your toolbar: background-size: contain.
It works for me in Monaca preview and debugger. For some reason the image size is different.
More info here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/background-size
I am using a Phonegap app to house a browser shell for a fully responsive website and I tweaked the Inappbrowser on IOS to only show the back/forward buttons but they are ridiculously tiny when I view the app on an actual iPhone. I'm talking like 8px by 4px tiny.
I searched through the CVDInAppBrowser.m file but couldn't find any settings for the actual size of the back/forward buttons.
I'm also having a tough time locating a solution via Google.
Any ideas on how this can achieved?
EDIT - Altering the toolbar height in the CVDInAppBrowser.m made the background container behind the buttons larger which makes the buttons stand out more but they are still so freakin tiny.
I am using VideoJS to show a video. It works great in all browsers on each and every system. Exception is the iPad (iOS 5 and iOS 6, both tested on Safari and Chrome). The video resizes to about 300px width.
When i delete videoJS from the page, the video is shown correctly. But i need videoJS for skinning purposes and because it makes HTML5 video work in jQuery sliders.
I tried several things:
Manually entering width and height in video.js or JS.
Adding CSS (including !important) to the videotag and even all tags (param) below.
Tried some vague techniques i found on stackoverflow. Like -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d; in the video-tag.
Tried to play with wmode.
Nothing seems to work. Does anyone have an idea?
First, if you haven't yet, you may want to upgrade to v4.0, released at the beginning of May (2013).
With 4.0, you can see a few examples of setting the width height, that are at least working for me on my iPad:
Width/Height 100%: http://jsbin.com/uyelud/1/edit
Width 200px/900px (weird dimension for example) http://jsbin.com/ojajuc/2/edit
To walk you through the vjs code...
The width height settings are grabbed from the tag here:
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/v4.0.3/src/js/player.js#L112
Removed from the video tag (because it's wrapped by a container div and made to fill the container)
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/v4.0.3/src/js/player.js#L144
Applied to the container div
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/v4.0.3/src/js/player.js#L180
And then handled by the UI component code
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/v4.0.3/src/js/component.js#L647
If you have different results on your page, you may want to set up a reduced test case to help narrow it down.
I have a site (ils-main.attorneysonlinepreview.com) that scales properly for everything except the menu bar. It's a fixed width site and I've set the viewport meta tag appropriately. For some reason, the menu items are scaling up instead of down so they wrap instead of fitting as they should.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
The issue is only on the iPad, not on 'real' computers. The scaling issue is there on Chrome on the iPad as well. The menu should have 5 items, but the last two wrap and because it's white lettering on white back ground, you might not have noticed it.
I got a video element on a page that's working fine both in safari mobile and desktop.
I have a seme-transparent pull-down menu that's working fine. The problem is, when the menu is over the video element, on the desktop safari i can see the video under the menu (as desired), while on the mobile version the video element stay on the foreground (ugly) no matter what i tell the css. Is there any workaround?
The issue only occurs if the video element was dynamically created. If the element was just in the page as it loaded, z-index works fine.
You can fix z-index on dynamically created videos by giving the video element -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d.
Yep, it's as bad as haslayout on IE!
Unfortunately not.
Based on my experience and understanding of how iOS currently works, this isn't possible.
Mobile Safari on the iPad cuts a hole for a Quicktime window , which plays back the video using the built in hardware acceleration to improve battery life. (The iPhone and iPod Touch just open it up in a separate window to achieve the same effect.)
This window doesn't play nicely with the other HTML on the page. In fact, I haven't found a way to get mobile Safari to display anything on top of a tag. My guess is that this is because the hardware acceleration only allows for video scaling and positioning, and that it's only able to handle one video at a time.
I'm using flowplayer and a simple CSS dropdown menu and had the same problem.
I have drop down menu that, when tapped, covers part of the video area. The submenu shows up over the video as expected, but no touch events were being sent.
I fixed it by combining a couple of suggestions from others answering this question: I set visibility:hidden when opening the menu and visibility:visible when closing the submenu, AND set the -webkit-transform-style:preserve-3d CSS property on the video.
Here's the pertinent code. I left out the CSS for the menubar, but it does what you might expect - resulting in a menu that covers portions of the video.
menu and video HTML
<div id='nav'>
<ul>
... <!-- bunch of ul/li stuff here for the menu and submenus -->
</ul>
</div>
<div id='videoplayer'><!-- for flowplayer --></div>
CSS
video {
-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
}
Javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#nav li").hover(
function() {
$(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility: "visible",display: "none"}).fadeIn(300);
$("video").css({visibility:"hidden"});
},
function(){
$(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility: "hidden"});
$("video").css({visibility:"visible"});
}
);
);
I have managed to place a menu div over a html5 video tag in mobile-safari on the ipad. To be honest I didn't have any problems and it just worked. It could be though because I was using CSS3 animations and therefore the GPU? You could try using a hack to add an element to the GPU. If you put -webkit-transform: translateZ(0); on the element it should force it to use the GPU...
When you have an element you want to be in front of your <video> in Safari, you need to set into that element the transform: translateZ(1px) or more pixels, as Safari is setting to your <video> element a 0 value for Z axis (transform: translateZ(0)).
This is the only thing it worked to me. No z-index, no transform-style:preserve-3d.
I ran into this also. The only thing that I could get to work for me was to add
display:none
to the video tag when showing a div over it that needed to be clicked on.
-webkit-transform-style:preserve-3d and -webkit-transform:translateZ(0) didn't work for me.
Using Flowplayer with the ipad plugin and the controlbar plugin allowed me to remove the ipad created control bar and replace it with something that can be z-indexed below my modal windows.
You can fix z-index on dynamically created videos by giving the video element -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d.
This worked for me with a dynamically created video element. I also set the z-index of the over-laying div to z-index: 888; which may also have helped.
I had this problem which was occurring on mobile devices with an off canvas menu. When the menu was over the video you could not tap any of the menu items.
I fixed it my moving the video somewhere else when the menu was on by positioning it absolutely at -100000px when the menu was not displayed it set it back being positioned relatively.
I found using display none did not work as when you set it to block again the video would not work.
I also tried setting the height to 0 - this did not work as the video still seemed to take up the space even though you couldn't see it.
The final method seems a bit extreme but it is not really noticeable when it is being used.
This is the code that will work on both the iPad and iPhone. I tried removing the controls and then add them again, but this worked only on iPad not on iPhone. After remove the opacity and then add it again it worked on iPhone also.
$("#overlay_open").click(function(){
$("video").prop("controls", false);
$("video").css("opacity", 0);
});
$("#overlay_close").click(function(){
$("video").prop("controls", true);
$("video").css("opacity", 1);
});
Just ran into this issue today & had to cobble together a solution from multiple answers since none fully handled the problem ...
I have video elements in a collapsed "table view" style list that were capturing touch events on iPhone when trying to tap on other list items. On iPhone the videos would play when tapping other collapsed elements that happened to be occupying the same spot on screen.
Fixing this required all of the following:
1) Using this:
video{
-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
}
... didn't seem to have any effect, but I left it in anyway. Everything's working now so I don't want to screw with it further :)
2) Toggling visibility: hidden alone didn't work, and display:none didn't work as expected.
3) In addition to "visibility" the HTML5 video tag controls attribute also has to be added/removed dynamically. Either:
$("video").css({visibility:"hidden"}).removeAttr("controls"); or $("video").css({visibility:"visible"}).attr("controls", "controls");
4) Must set visibility/controls on document load based on initial browser/screen size
5) Although the main concern was the screwy iPhone behavior, I also had to account for responsive window size changes above my smallest media query breakpoint of 600px - otherwise the videos would appear/disappear at the wrong screen sizes.
$(window).resize(function(){
if ($(window).width() > 600){
$("video").css({visibility:"visible"}).attr("controls", "controls");
}
});
Quite a pain to work around what's essentially a stupid mobile Safari bug... I sure hope it works on iPad when I test it later...
For anyone running into issues with this still, another fix that ended up working for me was to change the options in the embed code to not allow controls, suggested videos, and video title and player options. I added a simple Modernizr.MQ query to change the src for tablet and mobile, and included the following to the iframe src for mobile:
?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0
I never completely tracked down why this works, but my guess is that the controls have some user-agent style that gives them a high z-index and makes the element sit on top of everything.