Fix position:fixed in iOS 4 - ios

I am building a small app using PhoneGap HTML/CSS. Now my problem is that position:fixed (used on a top bar) works on iOS 5 but not on iOS 4. Someone knows a fix for this?

Position:fixed doesn't work on iOS before version 5 and some other mobile browsers. There are a lot of solutions out there for this, but one that I can personally recommend is GloveBox written by Nitobi's own Jesse MacFadyen. It lets you define areas that are scrollable, and I believe in your case that would be the main content, while the top bar isn't scrollable.
Another advantage of this approach is that the user won't be able to "scroll out" of your app's view as if it were a normal website on Mobile Safari.

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The site can be viewed at http://www.leicesterbakery.co.uk
I can confirm that for me the mobile menu wasn't working on an iPhone 6 Plus either.
When I clicked on the menu icon it was like focussing on the search box.
I think I have the solution.
In your CSS file at http://www.leicesterbakery.co.uk/templates/lbakery/css/custom.css, go to line 1018 and edit the width of the .search class from 80% to something lower.
In my tests, the following worked well.
.search {
width:70%;
float:left;
margin-top:20px;
}
After making the above change the mobile menu worked for me on an iPhone.
Good luck!

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I have an app on the store which is built using Ratchet framework. It used to work fine, until iOS 8 was released. Now when I test it on iOS 8, title bars for modals won't appear. All the controls like Close, Back buttons on the bar work when I click, but the bar and the controls on it are not visible. This happens only on iOS 8, works fine on iOS 7 and older versions.
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You can fix it by adding this rule to your CSS
header.bar.bar-nav {
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
}
You can track the issue on Ratchet's Github repository here - https://github.com/twbs/ratchet/issues/679
You should try position:sticky;. It's made to deal with position on Safari. fixed has been an issue with mobile devices for years. I thought it was fixed but iOs8 has weird behavior too...
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/08/Stick-your-landings-position-sticky-lands-in-WebKit

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In the I have a select input and it seems that after I make a selection the screen freezes when the screen is vertical but if I put it in landscape mode it works like a charm.
Also the same thing happens when I go from landscape to vertical mode and again all comes back to normal back in landscape mode.
I though it could be due to some of my scripts but I remove everything and I still got the issue.
And I forgot to mention it, but there was no issue at all before installing ios 7.
I'm at it for a while so any suggestion would be really appreciated.
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I created an iOS app last year using html, css, js, jqtouch and phonegap. The app has worked well until recently. It appears that since the iOS 5 update, there is a problem with the navigation.
If you scroll down the apps "pages" and try to select any options below the original screen horizon, the navigation doesn't work. Scroll back all the way to the top of the page and the links above the screen horizon all work. If you scroll back up the page, but not all the way to the original starting position, even the links that are above the original screen horizon won't work.
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This is an extjs single-page application which works fine in FF, IE, and Safari.
There are several problems with viewing or using this extjs app in the iphone. The extjs panels/windows do not resize, as it would in a normal screen. When the user zooms out, the expanding viewing area is blanked out. An example image is below:
Iphone does not recognize the combo box of the extjs.
Unable to scroll down.
Viewport Issue:
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