I have a website based on jQuery Mobile.
I'm using the viewport tag to fit my site to screen size.
So far so good.
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
But the Problem is now, that I'm still able to scroll my whole site (the whole mobile safari browser) around the screen.
I tried to set
body {
overflow:hidden;
}
like described in other posts here. But it does not work for me. Anyone an idea how to fix that?
I had the same problem, and ended up using this workaround:
document.ontouchmove = function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
};
Well zooming and scrolling doesn't always have to be related. Your problem here is not with the viewport but with the actual width of your site, if the size is wider than the screen size you will have scrolling issues. You would have to give us a live example so we can help you to find the elements that are overflowing your layout
I compared your site with one of our own. You're using jQuery Mobile 1.0RC1 and we're using 1.0b3. The problem occurs with your site but not with ours.
Maybe try upgrading to the latest jQuery Mobile?
As Jasper pointed out, you have a 404 while trying to fetch these:
http://www.m.fdl.de/wp-content/themes/jquerymobile-FDL%202/img/cursors/grab.png (image)
http://www.m.fdl.de/wp-content/themes/jquerymobile-FDL2/wp_properties.css?ver=1.13 (page)
http://www.m.fdl.de/wp-content/themes/jquerymobile-FDL%202/js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js (jQuery Library)
You look like you have a space in a folder name "jquerymobile-FDL 2", I would rename this without the space.
Also I'm not sure if you can have a meta tag inside the title or style tags, maybe move all meta tags to the start pf your head tag?
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_meta.asp
Also you seem to be importing two different versions of jQuery
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.2.min.js?ver=3.2.1
http://www.m.fdl.de/wp-content/themes/jquerymobile-FDL%202/js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js
So my website sizes correctly on a laptop PC running Windows 7. Howevever, when run on a iPhone or iPad, a couple things happen. Here's a link to my site to see www.mazzoreporting.com
First, the video in the right column extends beyond the main content box. I don't want to change the width because it makes it smaller on laptop pcs. I believe there is some kind of code I can write in my CSS to fix this?
That's it for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
you need to make an separate css and load it in case you detect an ipod/iphone/ipad/ other mobile device or better if you can do an excluve mobile version of you page
There is a "secret" HTML incantation that you need to add to the web page to get WebView to resize it. I think that it is:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,height=device-height, user-scalable=yes" />
(Within the <head> section.)
I have tried to disable phone number detection in safari for my web app but it still shows 7 character strings comprised of numbers as phone numbers. I used the apple provided meta tag but no joy.
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
Anyone else run into this problem and work around it?
Thanks.
Update: It looks like it does not detect phone numbers in safari but rather when I save the page as an icon and run it from the home screen.
Are you loading this in a UIWebView? If so, you need to set the property for dataDetectorTypes. e.g:
webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone
Valid detector types are here.
Search for UIWebView on apple's site for a description of how to set the property there.
-Kevin
We had a similar problem on our JQM/Cordova app. We had a calculator built into the app and whenever the amount was more than seven digits the data would be in blue with an underline underneath and when you click on the data a pop up appeared and gave you the option to call. We simply added
the meta tag as described in the opening question & it worked.
Just adding some thought here in case anybody else has a similar issue with Safari detecting 7 stringed data as telephone numbers.
OK. After quite a bit of futzing I think I found a strange work around. The problem with using dataDetectorTypes is that it will disable phone number detection for the whole uiwebveiw.
After trying datadetectors="off" and x-apple-data-detectors="false" attribute on span and a tags I finally stumbled on something that seems to prevent phone number detection.
If I wrap my text in an a tag with an href="#" apple seems to leave it alone.
Try this Code,
webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone;
This may help you.
Try and add this to YourProjectAppDelegate.m
// ...
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)theWebView
{
theWebView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll ^ UIDataDetectorTypePhoneNumber;
return [ super webViewDidStartLoad:theWebView ];
}
// ...
Did the trick for me..
OK, I'm having some issues with my site's mobile stylesheet on the iphone. I reworked the stylesheet to be similar to what http://m.facebook.com give the browser, only I'm getting an issue where the Safari on iPhone browser is still zooming the page out from like 960px, instead of constraining it to the native screen resolution. What gives?
Do you think it has to do with my .container960 class on the body element? I tried reseting those styles with the mobile stylesheet, but maybe it's not reseting the container styles properly.
The site is http://beta.cureinternational.org. You'll need to use username Guest and password guest to view the page.
Have you tried adding a meta-tag like this?
<meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width">
Or hard-coding in the dimensions yourself (see Viewport in https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html)
Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is turning that into a phone number link. Is it possible to disable this behavior for a whole page or an element on a page?
This seems to be the right thing to do, according to the Safari HTML Reference:
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
If you disable this but still want telephone links, you can still use the "tel" URI scheme.
Here is the relevant page at Apple's Developer Library.
I use a zero-width joiner
Just put that somewhere in the phone number and it works for me. Tested in BrowserStack (and Litmus for emails).
To disable the phone parsing appearance for specific elements, this CSS seems to do the trick:
.element { pointer-events: none; }
.element > a { text-decoration:none; color:inherit; }
The first rule disables the click, the second takes care of the styling.
Add this, I think it is what you're looking for:
<meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no">
I was having the same problem. I found a property on the UIWebView that allows you to turn off the data detectors.
self.webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone;
Solution for Webview!
For PhoneGap-iPhone / PhoneGap-iOS applications, you can disable telephone number detection by adding the following to your project’s application delegate:
// ...
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)theWebView
{
// disable telephone detection, basically <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
theWebView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll ^ UIDataDetectorTypePhoneNumber;
return [ super webViewDidStartLoad:theWebView ];
}
// ...
source: Disable Telephone Detection in PhoneGap-iOS.
To disable phone number detection on part of a page, wrap the affected text in an anchor tag with href="#". If you do this, mobile Safari and UIWebView should leave it alone.
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You can also use the <a> label with javascript: void(0) as href value. Example as follow:+44 456 77 89 87
Think I've found a solution: put the number inside a <label> element. Haven't tried any other tags, but <div> left it active on the home screen, even with the telephone=no attribute.
It seems obvious from earlier comments that the meta tag did work, but for some reason has broken under the later versions of iOS, at least under some conditions. I am running 4.0.1.
My experience is the same as some others mentioned. The meta tag...
<meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no">
...works when the website is running in Mobile Safari (i.e., with chrome) but stops working when run as a webapp (i.e., is saved to home screen and runs without chrome).
My less-than-ideal solution is to insert the values into input fields...
<input type="text" readonly="readonly" style="border:none;" value="3105551212">
It's less than ideal because, despite the border being set to none, iOS renders a multi-pixel gray bar above the field. But, it's better than seeing the number as a link.
I had an ABN (Australian Business Number) that iPad Safari insisted on turning into a phone number link. None of the suggestions helped. My solution was to put img tags between the numbers.
ABN 98<img class="PreventSafariFromTurningIntoLink" /> 009<img /> 675<img /> 709
The class exists only to document what the img tags are for.
Works on iPad 1 (4.3.1) and iPad 2 (4.3.3).
I have tested this myself and found that it works although it is certainly not an elegant solution. Inserting an empty span in the phone number will prevent the data detectors from turning it into a link.
(604) 555<span></span> -4321
I had the same problem, but on an iPad web app.
Unfortunately, neither...
<meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no">
nor ...
0 = 0
9 = 9
... worked.
But, here's three ugly hacks:
replacing the number "0" with the letter "O"
replacing the number "1" with the letter "l"
insert a meaningless span: e.g., 555.5<span>5</span>5.5555
Depending on the font you use, the first two are barely noticeable. The latter obviously involves superfluous code, but is invisible to the user.
Kludgy hacks for sure, and probably not viable if you're generating your code dynamically from data, or if you can't pollute your data this way.
But, sufficient in a pinch.
A trick I use that works on more than just Mobile Safari is to use HTML escape codes and a little mark-up in the phone number. This makes it more difficult for the browser to "identify" a phone number, i.e.
Phone: 1-800<span>-</span>620<span>-</span>3803
Why would you want to remove the linking, it makes it very user friendly to have th eoption.
If you simply want to remove the auto editing, but keep the link working just add this into your CSS...
a[href^=tel] {
color: inherit;
text-decoration:inherit;
}
<meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no"> does not work for emails: if the HTML you are preparing is for an email, the metatag will be ignored.
If what you are targeting are emails, here's yet another ugly-but-works solution for ya'll:
Example of some HTML you want to avoid being linked or auto formatted:
will cease operations <span class='ios-avoid-format'>on June 1,
2012</span><span></span>.
And the CSS that will make the magic happen:
#media only screen and (device-width: 768px) and (orientation:portrait){
span.ios-date{display:none;}
span.ios-date + span:after{content:"on June 1, 2012";}
}
The drawback: you may need a media query for each of the ipad/iphone portrait/landscape combos
You could try encoding them as HTML entities:
0 = 0
9 = 9
Same problem in Sencha Touch app solved with meta tag (<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">) in index.html of app.
This answer trumps everything as of 6-13-2012:
<a href="#" style="color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
pointer-events: none;">
Boca Raton, FL 33487
</a>
Change the color to whatever matches your text, text decoration removes the underline, pointer events stops it from being viewed like a link in a browser (pointer doesn't change to a hand)
This is perfect for HTML emails on ios and browser.
I too have this problem: Safari and other mobile browsers transform the VAT IDs into phone numbers. So I want a clean method to avoid it on a single element, not the whole page (or site).
I'm sharing a possible solution I found, it is suboptimal but still it is pretty viable: I put, inside the number I don't want to become a tel: link, the HTML entity which is the Word-Joiner invisible character. I tried to stay more semantic (well, at least a sort of) by putting this char in some meaning spot, e.g. for the VAT ID I chose to put it between the different groups of digit according to its format so for an Italian VAT I wrote: 06136050488 which renders in 06136050488 and it is not transformed in a telephone number.
Another option is to replace the hyphens in your phone number by the character ‑ (U+2011 'Unicode Non-Breaking Hyphen')
I was really confused by this for a while but finally figured it out. We made updates to our site and had some numbers converting to a link and some weren't. Turns out that numbers won't be converted to a link if they're in a <fieldset>. Obviously not the right solution for most circumstances, but in some it will be the right one.
Break the number down into separate blocks of text
301 <div style="display:inline-block">441</div> 3909
Adding the meta tag to turn off format detection did not work for me. I was trying to display a zoom meeting ID in a <p> tag along with other text and iOS was turning that ID into a tel link. Additionally, I was targeting tel links via a[href^="tel:"] in order to give them custom styling so disabling the styles on tel links was not an option.
The solution I found was to wrap the ID number in a <code> tag. This seems to prevent iOS from messing with it.