Fix CSS Hover on Iphone/Ipad/Ipod

Fix CSS hover on iPhone/iPad/iPod

Here is a basic, successful use of javascript hover on ios that I made:

Note: I used jQuery, which is hopefully ok for you.

JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function(){
  // Sorry about bad spacing. Also...this is jquery if you didn't notice allready.
  $(".mm").hover(function(){
    //On Hover - Works on ios
    $("p").hide();
  }, function(){
    //Hover Off - Hover off doesn't seem to work on iOS
    $("p").show();
 })
});

CSS:

.mm { color:#000; padding:15px; }

HTML:

<div class="mm">hello world</div>
<p>this will disappear on hover of hello world</p>

CSS :hover not working on iOS Safari and Chrome

I found a workaround: if you add onclick="" to the div, the hover will work.

Your html would be:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="hover.css" type="text/css"/>

<div class="video_wrap update">
  <div class="content">
    <div class="img_wrap"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0HDdjwpPM3Y/hqdefault.jpg"></div>
    <div class="title_wrap" onclick=""><div class="title">bang bang</div></div>
  </div>
</div>

Is it possible to force ignore the :hover pseudoclass for iPhone/iPad users?

I found that ":hover" is unpredictable in iPhone/iPad Safari. Sometimes tap on element make that element ":hover", while sometimes it drifts to other elements.

For the time being, I just have a "no-touch" class at body.

<body class="yui3-skin-sam no-touch">
   ...
</body>

And have all CSS rules with ":hover" below ".no-touch":

.no-touch my:hover{
   color: red;
}

Somewhere in the page, I have javascript to remove no-touch class from body.

if ('ontouchstart' in document) {
    Y.one('body').removeClass('no-touch');
}

This doesn't look perfect, but it works anyway.

:hover on ios mobile devices turns into double-touch instead of hover

iOS will not trigger a link click event on the first tap if the :hover state either:

Has a CSS transition animation
Reveals child content (such as a submenu, tooltip or ::before/::after element)

In both cases the first tap will trigger the :hover state and a second tap will trigger the link (or click event).

If you remove the animation or the child elements you should get it to trigger within a single tap.

This great article from CSS Tricks digs a bit deeper into the issue:

The Annoying Mobile Double-Tap Link Issue

iPad/iPhone hover problem causes the user to double click a link

Haven't tested this fully but since iOS fires touch events, this could work, assuming you are in a jQuery setting.

$('a').on('click touchend', function(e) {
    var el = $(this);
    var link = el.attr('href');
    window.location = link;
});

The idea is that Mobile WebKit fires a touchend event at the end of a tap so we listen for that and then redirect the browser as soon as a touchend event has been fired on a link.

iOS automatic hover fix?

Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>iPad Experiment</title>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
            if(navigator.platform == "iPad") {
                $("a").each(function() { // have to use an `each` here - either a jQuery `each` or a `for(...)` loop
                    var onClick; // this will be a function
                    var firstClick = function() {
                        onClick = secondClick;
                        return false;
                    };
                    var secondClick = function() {
                        onClick = firstClick;
                        return true;
                    };
                    onClick = firstClick;
                    $(this).click(function() {
                        return onClick();
                    });
                });
            }
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        a:hover {
            color:white;
            background:#FF00FF;
        }
    </style>
<body>
    <a href="http://google.ca">Google</a>
    <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow.com</a>
</body>
</html>

... or check out the demo on my web site. Note that it's set up to only work its magic on the iPad - detecting all versions of the iOS is another question in my books ;)

It works on the basis of the fact that...

After you click a link on the iphone or ipad, it leaves a simulated mouse hover that triggers the a:hover css styling on that link. If the link has a javascript handler that keeps you on same page, the hover state will not change until you click on another link.

Citation: Safari iphone/ipad “mouse hover” on new link after prior one is replaced with javascript

How do i fix :hover on iPhone if there is no a element?

You can fix this by using JavaScript.
The following script will add hover as class to the <li> element:

<script type="text/javascript">
$("li").hover(
  function () {
    $(this).addClass("hover");
  },
  function () {
    $(this).removeClass("hover");
  }
);  
</script>

Just add li.hover where you got li:hover in your CSS like this:

This:

ul li:hover ul{
    display:block;
}

Will be:

ul li:hover ul,
ul li.hover ul,{
    display:block;
}

jQuery Documentation:

http://api.jquery.com/hover/

http://api.jquery.com/addClass/

Fix CSS Hover on Iphone/Ipad/Ipod