I've got a problem with vertical scroll in iOS Safari on a web page: while being scrolled, page moves in a very slow way, with high resistance (such behavior is not usual for iOS browsers)
My attempts to locate the problem:
<!-- piece of HTML listing -->
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
(here goes some content)
</div>
</body>
I detected the problem in the overflow-x:hidden; rule for div#wrapper, changing it to 'overflow:hidden;' or removing it dynamically in web debugging panel.
Is there any chance to fix it without changing the page layout?
Repeats on Safari / iOS 6.1.4 and 7 (both iPad and iPhone), also in iOS Simulator on OS X.
You can try to add the webkit specific css line to you div:
#wrapper{
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
read more about momentum and ios scrolling here: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/momentum-scrolling-on-ios-overflow-elements/
Related
I noticed recently that every webpage I visit on iOS Chrome has an enormous blank space at the bottom of the page. The space is roughly equal to a full screen height (i.e. 100vh) and is located below all visible elements on the page. Basically I can keep scrolling the page until it's completely blank. The scrollbar also shows that the pages are much longer than their content would require.
All the pages I looked at behave fine on Android, on OSX, and even on iOS when I use Firefox or Safari. The issue seems specific to iOS Chrome. I'm not sure when this issue started but I've updated Chrome and it persists.
Is anyone else experiencing this iOS Chrome bug? I haven't found any info about it.
I created a dummy test webpage and just kept stripping it down to see what was causing the issue. Eventually I was left with a page containing only <p> tags and very minimal CSS (no positioning properties) but the extra space at page bottom still showed up. By adding a background-color to the <body> I could see that this extra space was within the <body> but there wasn't any element forcing the body to extend.
After much trial and error I discovered that if I disable Chrome's Smooth Scrolling this issue is resolved and all pages behave normally.
Solution: Load chrome://flags and set Smooth Scrolling to disable.
Seems odd that this would be necessary. Anyone know what's going on?
This is likely a Chrome bug (iPad). I also spent a lot of time debugging all the css and my components. End up event google.com it self has that mysterious white space (which is about the height of the content itself.).
6 hours gone, but it's a relieve to know it's nothing got to do with my codes.
iPhone with chrome is fine on my end
To stop the page from scrolling, in both x, and y axis, we use the overflow: hidden; attribute in css.
So if we apply this to the body,
body {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
this should work in your scenario!
Please make sure you have added this meta tag and the same attributes
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
And check your body tag CSS, there should not be height: 100vh and check your pages again by clearing browser cache or in the private mode.
I am developing a Cordova application which previously used the JQuery mobile 1.4.5 script. A previous problem on Android, where transitioning from a page to another caused unnecessary flickering left me no choice but to remove the call to the JQuery mobile script.
<script src="js/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.js"></script>
Instead I simply left the CSS
<link href="js/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.css" rel="stylesheet" />
and used the JQuery mobile classes to change the styles of inputs, buttons, etc, retaining the previous app style (this was highly important especially considering that the app is almost finished and the design in which jquery mobile was heavily used needed to be retained).
When I did this I found out that on iOS the scrolling was no longer fast and smooth as it was before. I tried to revert to the old method, i.e. having the j-query mobile script and the iOS smooth works normally. This proves that J-Query mobile had some specific script that 'fixes' the iOS scroll. I would like to use just this script to fix the scrolling problems. Apart from this problem, the app works and looks just fine.
Below is the 'template' html of every page. As you can see the jquery-mobile classes that are normally automatically wrapped around the components of the app after the page loads are manually assigned to the specific components.
<html class="ui-mobile js csstransitions">
<head>
</head>
<body class="ui-mobile-viewport ui-overlay-a sidy--panels-closed">
<div class="sidy ui-page ui-page-theme-a ui-page-active">
<nav>Menu</nav>
<nav>Search</nav>
<div class="sidy__content">
<div id="wrapper" class="wrapper">
<div>Fixed header</div>
<div>Container</div>
<div>Fixed Footer</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script></script>
</body>
<html>
I tried to search intensively on stackoverflow and other sources. For e.g. this fix did not work when tried on the tag; as the fixed header and footer move with the scrolling and only restore to their original position when the scrolling operation is finished. When trying to assign the class on the container (where the actual scrolling needs to happen); nothing happens.
cssClass{
overflow-y: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
What would be most useful to me is to know which part of the Jquery mobile script makes the iOS scrolling look smooth and native and act very fast!
Thank you for your help!
Your css'ed div needs for IOS (Safari) to have a non-dynamic size in the scroll direction, i.e. the height in your example.
Add a height element:
cssClass{
overflow-y: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
height: ...px;
}
and it should work.
I had the same problem, and was able to solve it with this added property. I use React.JS so, I could easily get computed the height so that it was correct for different devices, adjusted for headers and footers etc. With Javascript you can do compute it with the variable window.innerHeight (at least for Cordova, I don't know if this is a standard browser variable).
TLDR;
Everything works fine unless I try to scroll down the page with my touch start inside of a horizontally scrolling div, because page has the elastic scrolling effect while not at bottom or top. Removing jQuery Mobile fixes this problem. This is only happening in IOS, Android is fine. TLDR;
I'm having an issue with jQuery Mobile and scrolling.
I have a page that is greater than my screen (on iPhone 5s). This page has 2 horizontally scrolling divs on it with images.
The scrolling divs are as follows
HTML:
<div class="list">
<input type="radio" name="cover" value="26" id="Cover26" data-role="none" class="offScreen">
<label for="Cover26">
<span class="check"></span>
<img src="http://placehold.it/110x170" class="background">
</label>
</div>
CSS:
.list{width:auto;height:190px;overflow:hidden;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:visible;white-space:nowrap;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;}
.list label{width:110px;height:170px;margin:0 8px 5px;padding:0;position:relative;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;display:inline-block;}
.list input{position:absolute;top:-999px;left:-999px;}
This scrolling works fine horizontally, but when I touch inside one of these divs and pull up on the screen to scroll down the page, the page has the elastic scrolling effect(see images). Scrolling down the page works find if my touch starts outside the horizontal div.
First view of page
Elastic scrolling happening when page isn't at bottom
At actual bottom of page
Elastic scrolling happening when page isn't at the top
Scrolling up and down the page is only possible when the touch starts outside of the horizontally scrolling div. If I remove jQuery Mobile this issue no longer happens. I believe it has something to do with jQuery Mobile's vmouse events. But I haven't been able to tell for certain and I'm not sure if I can remove those event handlers and have the page still work with jQuery Mobile.
Form as far as I can tell this is only happening on IOS. I've tried and android phone and everything works as expected.
I've been stuck on this for a while and can't figure out what else I can do to fix it. Any ideas are helpful. Thanks for looking!
For anyone that would like a demo here are some I'm hosting. I would have put them on jsfiddle but jsfiddle doesn't support setting viewport for the mobile page to render properly.
Page with jQuery Mobile which doesn't work
Same page without jQuery Mobile which does work
The problem appears to be caused by the below CSS styles.
#cover-builder-page, #page-builder-page {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
When you set page's height to 100%, it sets height according to available space in viewport. If you set min-height to 100% it will work, or just remove it all together.
Demo (1)
(1) Tested on iPhone 5 - Safari
when using [-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;], the scrolling area does work well,
but it causes touch events stopping work out of the scrolling area.
Is there anyone had the same problem? Who can give me some official links about this new scrolling feature?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>ios5 scroll</title>
<style type="text/css">
header {
background: red;
width: 300px;
height:44px;
}
.scroll {
width: 300px;
height:300px;
background: yellow;
overflow: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<header>
<button onclick="alert('header');">won't work?</button>
</header>
<div class="scroll">
<button onclick="alert('scroll');">It works</button>
<div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div>
<div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div>
<div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div><div>text</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
2011-12-27: I have fixed this problem but I still no wonder the real reason.
In my case, I have several sections in one web page, each section has a scroll area and a header, each time only one section is showed and use css3 animation combined with transform to switch sections. when add [-webkit-overflow-scrolling] in the scroll area of all sections, touch events stop working randomly, so I just add [-webkit-overflow-scrolling] in the section which is showed currently and remove it when the section is hidden. That works well but I still don't know what causes this problem.
I have the same issue, and I can also replicate it every time. I have a page that resizes elements to fit the screen when the orientation of the iPad changes. If at any point the element no longer needs to scroll, it will stop doing so thereafter even if the element is resized back to where it needs to scroll (e.g. flipping back to landscape for me). So it's definitely a bug, but I do have a workaround:
When resizing the element, I'm resetting the -webkit-overflow-scrolling to auto, then setting it back to touch. However, you have to introduce a delay between the two (50ms is working fine, didn't try any lower). So what I did was added an attribute of "scrollable" to the elements, and used the code below (using jQuery):
$("[scrollable]").css("-webkit-overflow-scrolling", "auto");
window.setTimeout(function () { $("[scrollable]").css("-webkit-overflow-scrolling", "touch") }, 100);
Hope this helps!
This is caused by having an <iframe> on the page. Many scripts create <iframes> to do their work including social tracking buttons (Facebook, Twitter, G+), analytics tracking (Google, etc.), and libraries like PhoneGap.
It doesn't matter how the <iframe> is displayed. display: none; visibility: hidden; width: 0; height: 0 does not fix it. If an <iframe> is on the page it will happen, sometimes intermittently and sometimes always.
The only solution I've found so far (which is turning out to not be very workable in a production app) is to delete all <iframes> on the page, create them only when needed (for example, when I need to call a PhoneGap API), and then delete them when finished.
I confirm I saw the same issue on a web app using extensively touch events and list scrolls.
Before iOS5 I was using iScroll, and everything was working fine;
With iOS5, I used -webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch to scroll lists to get faster scrolls.
The consequence is I met random occurrences of touch events no more working on various parts of the app. The issues generally occur after I scrolled a list. it affects randomly elements outside the scrolled area, typically a footer menu.
Reloading the app when in 'frozen touch' state doesn't unfreezes it : to unfreeze it, I had to close the safari tab, open a new one and reload, until I met again the issue while using the app.
The issue is seen on iPad2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, all on iOS 5.0
Eventually, I deactivated the overflow touch scroll and came back to iScroll, and things work well as in iOS4 .
-webkit-overflow-scrolling + CSS3 Animations + Phonegap API calls = touch stops responding.
My phonegap app will work fine until I make a call to a Phonegap API, at which point the touch will stop responding on mainly the first element that has a event attached to it in the current view. A view for my app is body > div.current with the rest of the divs display none.
I can replicate this every time.
It is clearly a bug in iOS5.
Here's a variation on a few of the answers already listed.
My specific issue was that reorientation caused scrolling to stop working completely when -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch was applied to an element.
Example: Landscape orientation is shorter and needs a scrollbar. Portrait is tall enough that no scrollbar is needed. Reorient to landscape; scrollbar is present but non-functional.
listen for the orientationchange event
do something which triggers a layout change on the scrolling element
ensure that the change is significant enough that the rendering engine doesn't optimize it away. For example, hiding then immediately showing does not seem to do anything. Anything that uses setTimeout() seems to work (perhaps it is the different execution context, I don't know).
Fading in and out works, or hiding and then showing with a short delay works (though it flashes). #Sari's solution for changing the scroll properties works and does not cause any visible redraw.
$(window).on("orientationchange", function () {
// use any valid jQuery selector
var elements = $("[data-touchfix=true]");
elements.css("-webkit-overflow-scrolling", "auto");
window.setTimeout(function () {
elements.css("-webkit-overflow-scrolling", "touch");
}, 100);
});
Note that I haven't tested this fix beyond my iPad 3 other than to ensure that it doesn't cause script errors in Chrome or IE 7/8/9.
In case this is of any use...Incorporating PhoneGap I was using Zepto to append ajax-loaded, scrollable content into the dom. I was then applying a css transition on it. There were no iFrames on the page.
I was experiencing the same issue as mentioned here, where scrolling would just stop working. When I copied the generated code into a separate file and tried that on the iOS simulator - everything worked as expected.
I eventually got it to work by querying the height of the parent container - just before the css transition. By adding var whatever = $('#container').height(); the scrolling worked.
To improve a little bit ThinkingStiff's excelent answer, you can avoid blinking
- if overflow:hidden is set
- if instead of 'auto' value just remove property:
$('.scroll').css({'overflow':'hidden','-webkit-overflow-scrolling':''});
window.setTimeout(function () { $('.scroll').css({'overflow':'auto','-webkit-overflow-scrolling':'touch'})},50);
In recently testing a web application on Windows/Mac desktop browsers - and then on an iPad I noticed various differences in Safari that I wasn't expecting. Even though the version # is the same.
I'd like to compose a list of those differences (for myself and others) to have as a developer reference.
e.g. in Safari on the iPad
iPad Safari takes full control of Select list/option styling
iPad opens the onscreen keyboard when an input element receives focus, thus inline floating calendar widgets (and the like) may not work as expected (or need to be altered)
iPad Safari doesn't support position:fixed like desktop Safari < iOS 5
iPad Safari (similar to iPhone/iPodTouch Safari) automatically hyperlinks 10 digit numbers to offer phone #/contact options
iPad Safari prompt('long message...','default'); shows only 1 line of the message (though it does provide scrolling of the message
I've heard from others that certain JavaScript doesn't work, etc. etc. but I have yet to fully test it thus I'd be grateful for any discoveries that you may have encountered.
A few more for you:
No Flash
Lousy iFrame support (so facebook like etc. needs a custom implementation for iPad)
Weird caching limitations
HTML textAreas doesn't get a scroll bar (you have to double-finger swipe - which of course, is amazingly intuitive)
In general. Treat it like a scaled up iPhone, not a scaled down Desktop.
I thought this might be useful: Apple's guide to preparing web content for the iPad
Just been caught out by the position:fixed issue my self
Safari on iPad has the same issue with button width/padding as on the iPhone
iPhone <button> padding unchangeable? describes this problem and a solution for removing padding on a button with text, but this does not help you if you want a button to be narrower than the padding itself (e.g. for a button that only has a small icon on it). To do that, I had to surround the button with an outer element with a defined width and overflow: hidden like so:
<span style="border: solid 1px blue; display: block; width: 16px; overflow: hidden">
<button style="-webkit-appearance: none; border-width: 0"> </button>
</span>
(the blue border is to show where the button is, it's not critical to the hack)
jQuery's offset() doesn't work: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6446
It also looks like iPad Safari has issues with elements with overflow:auto; that therefore should show scrollbars (test page with div's and iframe's).
iPad Safari seems to have trouble handling background images in rare cases, showing weird lines of lower lying content.
There's not a lot about this in Google (yet).
iPad browser doesnt support file uploading(even if it supports it will useless as iPad does not have a standard File Browser). The file field appears with a Choose File button grayed out.
Beside doesn't support scrollbar in TextAea, it seems that we can using javascript to make text in TextArea selected automatically too.
This code will only move cursor to the end of text in TextArea.
<div>
<textarea id="text-embed-code" autocapitalize="off" multiline="">
There is a fox running after chrome.
</textarea>
<button onclick="testSelectText(event);">select text</button>
</div>
<script>
function testSelectText(e) {
var box = document.getElementById("text-embed-code");
box.select();
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}
</script>
There appears to be a bug in iPad Safari where a CSS element with both a background image and a background color is rendered with a slight border in the color of the background color. It should fill with the background image all the way to the edge of the rendered element.
I just had the same bug on my site, when trying to view it on an Ipad. The HTML structure is like:
<div class="main"> <!-- background-color: white -->
<div class="left"></div> <!-- background-image: url(some_transparent_png) -->
<div class="content">...</div>
<div class="right"></div> <!-- background-image: url(some_transparent_png) -->
</div>
The left layer uses a background-image, whereas the main layer uses just a background-color. The Ipad view shows a slight border at the edge of the left and right layer.
When i add
-webkit-background-size: 100% 100%;
to the left and right layer, the border disappears.
You can now control the styling of select lists on iOS by resetting it with -webkit-appearance: none;
This rule fixes animation flickering in Safari on iOS devices:
body {-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,0,0);}
There appears to be a bug in iPad Safari where a CSS element with both a background image and a background color is rendered with a slight border in the color of the background color. It should fill with the background image all the way to the edge of the rendered element.
24 bit transparent PNGS ABOVE A CERTAIN FILE SIZE don't render on the iPad2.
I can however get 8 bit ones of the same dimensions to render.
I haven't found out what this maximum file size is in order to get them to render.
I'm currently working on a small responsive web-app which makes heavy use of the iframe youtube api. Apparently the ipad version of safari doesn't support a few html5 methods which I use heavily in this project.
One of them is window.postMessage, which is a way of interacting with scripts on other pages, for example the a script that is used "within" that iframe. Autoplaying videos also doesn't work.
Frame problems. iPad Safari will both hide scrollbars and expand frames to the size of their content.
Changing the frame tag to include scrolling="yes" and noresize="noresize" appears to do nothing.
Some sites look fine on everything, even a Dreamcast browser, but not on iPad. The issue can be fixed using tables and iframes instead of normal framesetting (cols and rows, etc).
I also discovered that contenteditable is not supported in mobile safari, thus using a plain textarea is a better bet. Apple Developer Docs
position: fixed;
Does not work in iOS 4 but does work on iOS 5.