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iPad textarea not selectable

April 20, 2015 by Webhead

Problem

The textarea on iPad could not be selected and could not have anything entered.

Solution

The textarea in iPad only responds to the ‘touchstart’ event and not the ‘click’ event, but regular input accepts the ‘click’ apparently.  I some javascript where it would catch the ‘touchstart’ event and trigger a ‘click’ event to make things a little faster on iPads.  This prevented the textarea from being selected and edited.

Another possible solution was I didn’t have the cols and rows attribute in the textarea html tag.  Adding these attributes before the class or id attributes solved it for some people.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3909843/why-is-my-text-area-disabled-on-ipad

Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: html, iPad, javascript

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