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iPad textarea not selectable

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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

What keyboard does an HTML input bring up?

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I was having trouble figuring out what input type brings up what keyboard on the iPhone and iPad.  Turns out the number type doesn’t bring up the numeric pad.  Only “tel” does.

This is a great article on what input type brings up what keyboard:

https://about.zoosk.com/ko/engineering-blog/mobile-web-design-use-html5-to-trigger-the-appropriate-keyboard-for-form-inputs/

When your input is surrounded by a form tag, the keyboard will show a blue “Go” button.  Otherwise it will show a regular return button.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22986347/go-vs-return-button-in-ios-keyboard-for-html-input-forms

CSS iOS div lines disappear on zoom in

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Problem

In iOS devices sometimes safari can display an annoying line above and below div elements.  Like so:

Unwanted div lines

 

Solution

The solution is quite hacky and hopefully this is a bug in Safari and it gets fixed soon.  The solution is to put a negative 1px margin on the sides you see the lines.  So if you see the lines above a certain div, set the top margin to -1px.

Thanks to this blog for the solution.