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iOS5 -webkit-overflow-scrolling causes touch events to stop working

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.

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user994778 Avatar asked Oct 14 '11 05:10

user994778


3 Answers

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!

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ZeSchnoz Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 16:10

ZeSchnoz


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.

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ThinkingStiff Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 15:10

ThinkingStiff


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 .

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Julien Martin Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 15:10

Julien Martin