So here's my predicament.
In mobile safari, overflow:hidden; doesn't work as it does on desktop. On desktop, adding this to the body disables scrolling in the browser, but then you can still scroll inside another div, say a drawer or a lightbox.
On mobile safari, you can still scroll the page with a touch and drag with your finger.
I came across a possible solution:
document.ontouchmove = function(event){
event.preventDefault();
}
However, this disables scrolling altogether. Even in a drawer or lightbox div where I need to still allow scrolling.
I also came across another "fix" where people add position:fixed; to the body. This doesn't work in my scenario because the user could already be halfway down the page when they open a drawer/lightbox. This method would put the body in a fixed position, thus losing their scroll position of the body.
How can I disable any movement/scrolling of the body on mobile safari, but still allow scrolling in a drawer/lightbox?
When you scroll on a web page in iOS 7s Safari the URL bar shrinks and the bottom navigation bar disappears. In the site I am working on these two things to not happen.
The momentum/inertial scrolling was not working as well until I added -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; to the html element.
I can't imagine what element I have added to the code to have it lock up Mobile Safari like this.
Hoping this isn't a repeat question, it's hard to know what to call this besides "shrinking/hiding".
I accidentally stumbled upon the solution last night in an article by Maximiliano Firtman's article Breaking the Mobile Web. The article points out many issues with the new Mobile Safari in iOS 7.
The solution to my problem was close to his answer (his being if there is overflow: scroll; on your page it will not trigger the auto UI hide feature) mine was an overflow: hidden; style.
I have a web-application which was originally designed to be used from standard desktops and laptops, now I am trying to see if it can work "as is" also on tablets.
I tried it on an iPad 2, and I fould one major problem: the application makes heavy use of dialogs, created using jQuery UI 1.8.22, which are used as "popup", that is, each dialog contains an iframe, and when the content overflows the dialog size the vertical scrollbar appears, but I'm unable to scroll the iframe content 'cause it will always scroll the main page content.
How could this problem be solved? Do you think it is an issue with my application or with the iPad browser itself?
If it can be of any use, I'll post the code which creates the dialogs themselves, for now just let me say that, when navigated using a standard computer, there are absolutely no scrolling problems.
EDIT:
I just created this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/MLGku/1/ which shows how we create such popups, I tried the fiddle with the iPad and in fact I cannot scroll the iframe content, I'd be very grateful for any help you'd be able to give me.
In the end I've been able to solve the problem by using this snipped of code:
if (/iPhone|iPod|iPad/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
$('iframe').wrap(function() {
var $this = $(this);
return $('<div />').css({
width: $this.attr('width'),
height: $this.attr('height'),
overflow: 'auto',
'-webkit-overflow-scrolling': 'touch'
});
});
}
The code above was found here: http://home.jejaju.com/play/iframe-scroll.html
I have a one page scrolling site width smooth scrolling links. Fixed position nav with links to anchors. Pretty straight forward.
Everything works fine on desktop browsers, but on the iPad (iOS 5 Mobile Safari) links work fine initially, but efter the page gets scrolled (by top nav links), all links including top nav links "get blocked" and can't be clicked. I have to adjust the viewport vertical scroll, then the links works again.
Thankful for any help!
Using this scrolling function:
$('nav ul a').bind('click',function(event){
var $anchor = $(this);
$('html, body').stop().animate({
scrollTop: $( $anchor.attr('href')).offset().top - 60
}, 1200,'easeInOutExpo');
event.preventDefault();
});
The same Problem is described here: anchor links not working properly on ipad
Found the solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9198836/1145706
I've solved this with a trick. I've created invisible divs over the menu items that changes it's position when page scrolls (simulating afixed element over the real position: fixed menu items). When user clicks or hover over those invisble divs the real ones are called
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);