Highest scored 'iphone+html' questions

883 votes

41 answers

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Disable Auto Zoom in Input "Text" tag - Safari on iPhone

I made an HTML page that has an <input> tag with type="text". When I click on it using Safari on iPhone, the page becomes larger (auto zoom). Does anybody know how to disable this?

Eduardo Montenegro

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asked Jun 7, 2010 at 12:06

414 votes

11 answers

364k views

Turn off iPhone/Safari input element rounding

My website renders well on the iPhone/Safari browser, with one exception: My text input fields have a weird rounded style which doesn't look good at all with the rest of my website. Is there a way to ...

Alex

76.7k

asked May 27, 2010 at 5:38

310 votes

14 answers

213k views

Comparison between Corona, Phonegap, Titanium

I am a web developer and I want to move my web products to iPhone. One of the products is like Google Maps: show map on the phone screen, you can drag or resize the map and view some information that ...

Mickey Shine

12.3k

asked Sep 27, 2009 at 1:46

228 votes

9 answers

107k views

Preserve HTML font-size when iPhone orientation changes from portrait to landscape

I have a mobile web application with an unordered list containing multiple items with a hyperlink inside each li: My question is: how can I format the hyperlinks so that they DON'T change size when ...

DShultz

4,461

asked Apr 26, 2010 at 2:16

228 votes

9 answers

146k views

QuotaExceededError: Dom exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota

Using LocalStorage on iPhone with iOS 7 throws this error. I've been looking around for a resolvant, but considering I'm not even browsing in private, nothing is relevant. I don't understand why ...

Nict

3,068

asked Jan 16, 2014 at 10:35

193 votes

11 answers

304k views

How do I put a clear button inside my HTML text input box like the iPhone does?

I want to have a nice little icon that, when clicked will clear the text in the <INPUT> box. This is to save space rather than having a clear link outside of the input box. My CSS skills are ...

Hugh Buchanan

2,091

asked May 10, 2010 at 14:43

166 votes

13 answers

121k views

Using HTML and Local Images Within UIWebView

I have a UIWebView in my app which I want to use to display an image which will link to another url. I'm using <img src="image.jpg" /> to load the image. The problem is that the image doesn't ...

Jasarien

58.4k

asked Apr 14, 2009 at 12:53

149 votes

7 answers

145k views

Can I avoid the native fullscreen video player with HTML5 on iPhone or android?

I've built a web app that uses the HTML5 tag and JavaScript code that renders other content synchronized with the running video. It works great in desktop browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. On an ...

AlpineCarver

1,708

asked Feb 20, 2011 at 0:50

142 votes

8 answers

102k views

What are some methods to debug Javascript inside of a UIWebView?

I'm trying to figure out why something with Javascript isn't working inside of a UIWebView. To my knowledge, there is no way to set a breakpoint inside of XCode for a js file. No problemo, I'll just ...

bpapa

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asked May 4, 2010 at 18:20

134 votes

10 answers

153k views

Reading HTML content from a UIWebView

Is it possible to read the raw HTML content of a web page that has been loaded into a UIWebView? If not, is there another way to pull raw HTML content from a web page in the iPhone SDK (such as an ...

Fuzzy Purple Monkey

1,940

asked Jun 14, 2009 at 7:17

133 votes

11 answers

114k views

Disabled input text color on iOS

The simple HTML below displays differently in Firefox and WebKit-based browsers (I checked in Safari, Chrome and iPhone). In Firefox both border and text have the same color (#880000), but in Safari ...

Incidently

4,309

asked Nov 4, 2008 at 15:26

103 votes

13 answers

95k views

HTML character decoding in Objective-C / Cocoa Touch

First of all, I found this: Objective C HTML escape/unescape, but it doesn't work for me. My encoded characters (come from a RSS feed, btw) look like this: & I searched all over the net and ...

treznik

8,044

asked Jul 9, 2009 at 16:56

97 votes

7 answers

35k views

Using Phonegap for Native Application development [closed]

I recently came across Phonegap. Have anyone of you tried it. Its an incredible tool which claims that developers can use HTML 5 based framework like Sencha touch and Jquery at the same time having ...

SaKet

1,638

asked Mar 1, 2011 at 22:09

94 votes

10 answers

99k views

A html5 web app for mobile safari to upload images from the Photos.app?

Is it possible to write a HTML5 web application designed for the iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) which can allow the user to upload an image from the filesystem? Imagine uploading a new photo ...

Abhic

1,250

asked Oct 8, 2010 at 15:04

92 votes

16 answers

209k views

Autoplay audio files on an iPad with HTML5

I'm trying to get an audio file to autoplay in Safari on an iPad. If I go to the page using Safari on my Mac, it's fine. On the iPad, autoplay does not work.

milesmeow

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asked Jun 9, 2010 at 20:58

90 votes

10 answers

78k views

Programmatically selecting text in an input field on iOS devices (mobile Safari)

How do you programmatically select the text of an input field on iOS devices, e.g. iPhone, iPad running mobile Safari? Normally it is sufficient to call the .select() function on the <input ... /&...

sroebuck

6,070

asked Jul 17, 2010 at 15:24

87 votes

2 answers

31k views

iPhone browser defaulting to uppercase for first letter of password fields

I'm writing a login page for a mobile version of my webapp and I have a simple HTML password field like so: <input id="password" type="password" /> The only problem is that the iPhone Safari ...

Rory Harvey

2,607

asked Jun 15, 2011 at 10:07

82 votes

8 answers

130k views

Invoke native date picker from web-app on iOS/Android

I'm trying to explore the posibilities with running a native web-app on different platforms using HTML5. Currently, an <input type="date">field just opens the standard soft keyboard on Android ...

hnilsen

2,005

asked Feb 9, 2011 at 15:29

79 votes

2 answers

92k views

Is there a way to make a phone number clickable on an iphone or android phone to make a call in HTML?

Is it possible to make a phone number clickable in HTML so that when a user clicks on the number it is called?

leeand00

25.8k

asked Dec 31, 2010 at 21:04

79 votes

8 answers

79k views

HTML5 inline video on iPhone vs iPad/Browser

I've created an HTML5 video player (very simple) that works perfectly on the iPad and the browser. However, when I open it on the iPhone, I only get a play button which, when pressed, opens the ...

Andre

4,457

asked Sep 13, 2010 at 10:30

79 votes

9 answers

71k views

iPhone / iOS : Presenting HTML 5 Keyboard for Postal Codes

There are several tricks for displaying different keyboards on mobile devices for HTML 5 inputs (i.e. <input> tags). For example, some are documented on Apple's website, Configuring the ...

Ryan McGeary

238k

asked Aug 21, 2014 at 11:27

77 votes

9 answers

182k views

How to set viewport meta for iPhone that handles rotation properly?

So I've been using: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;"/> to get my HTML content to display nicely on the iPhone. It works great until ...

George Armhold

31k

asked Aug 4, 2009 at 21:27

76 votes

14 answers

97k views

Objective C HTML escape/unescape

Wondering if there is an easy way to do a simple HTML escape/unescape in Objective C. What I want is something like this psuedo code: NSString *string = @"<span>Foo</span>...

Alex Wayne

183k

asked Mar 18, 2009 at 18:43

75 votes

16 answers

110k views

Hide iPhone HTML5 video play button

I want to hide the big play button that appears by default on the <video> element Is it possible?

ilyo

36.1k

asked Jan 18, 2012 at 13:50

68 votes

9 answers

74k views

parsing HTML on the iPhone [closed]

Can anyone recommend a C or Objective-C library for HTML parsing? It needs to handle messy HTML code that won't quite validate. Does such a library exist, or am I better off just trying to use ...

Sophie Alpert

141k

asked Jan 2, 2009 at 0:37

62 votes

11 answers

136k views

How do I hide the address bar on iPhone?

How do I hide the address bar on iPhone? I tried two different methods so far: The scroll down one pixel trick with JavaScript on page load And the following meta tags: <meta name="viewport" ...

Peter Szabo

1,086

asked Nov 7, 2010 at 10:49

60 votes

12 answers

114k views

Prevent iPhone from zooming form? [duplicate]

The code: <select> <option value="1">Home</option> <option value="2">About</option> <option value="3">Services</option> <option value="4"&...

Atadj

7,088

asked Jun 16, 2012 at 14:26

57 votes

10 answers

105k views

How to detect a long touch pressure with javascript for android and iphone?

How to detect a long touch pressure with javascript for android and iphone? native javascript or jquery... I want something that sound like : <input type='button' onLongTouch='myFunc();' />

Christophe Debove

6,166

asked May 26, 2011 at 13:26

57 votes

7 answers

78k views

Disable fullscreen iphone video

Struggling with this problem for a few days in a row now... Is there any way or 'hack' to disable playing video fullscreen on Safari on a iPhone. Of course I already tried the 'webkit-playsinline' ...

Sebass van Boxel

2,542

asked Oct 22, 2013 at 15:08

56 votes

3 answers

50k views

Implementation of HTTP Live Streaming in iOS

I want to write a little iOS video client and have to use HTTP Live Streaming. The videos come from a Wowza Media Server which supports HTTP Live Streaming, so the server-side implementation is not my ...

Lindemann

3,356

asked Nov 28, 2011 at 4:59

56 votes

1 answer

9k views

Chrome dev tools to emulate mobile devices with navigation bar

Hey I'm a web developer and I'm looking for a way to emulate mobile devices which also displays their respective navigation bars, toolbars etc. In the 'Device toolbar' in Google Chrome (v58 on macOS) ...

Martin

1,926

asked May 17, 2017 at 2:45

53 votes

7 answers

34k views

Error: Whitelist rejection in Phonegap

I'm new to mobile development. I'm using Phonegap/Cordova to create a cross-platform app. My code works well on Android but when I'm porting it to iPhone it's showing an error: [143:2003] ERROR ...

Neji

6,691

asked May 29, 2012 at 8:31

50 votes

4 answers

50k views

Limit of localstorage on iPhone?

I'm wondering what's the limit of localstorage HTML 5 on iPhone? I read that it was like 5 Mb, but I'm surprised is so little. Any ideas?

fesja

3,313

asked Dec 17, 2009 at 11:12

48 votes

7 answers

50k views

Show 'Search' button in iPhone/iPad Safari keyboard

I've noticed navigating in websites like Dell or Google, that typing in their search text box with iPhone, in the keyboard appears a blue button 'Search' instead of the standard 'Go' button that ...

Javier Marín

2,166

asked Feb 1, 2011 at 15:05

47 votes

5 answers

42k views

iOS WebView remote html with local image files

Similar questions have been asked before, but I could never find a solution. Here is my situation - my UIWebView loads a remote html page. The images used in the web pages are known at build time. In ...

CM Subram

473

asked Apr 6, 2011 at 19:59

45 votes

4 answers

35k views

IOS HTML disable double tap to zoom

I am designing a website primarily focused on data entry. In one of my forms I have buttons to increment and decrement the number value in a form field quickly. I was using <meta name="viewport" ...

tchatow

768

asked Sep 12, 2017 at 3:49

42 votes

9 answers

48k views

Getting iPhone GO button to submit form

Is anyone aware of what variables go into a form to make the iPhones virtual keyboard's GO button submit the form vs. not? I've been trying to narrow down the scenarios and this is what I've found: ...

DA.

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asked Apr 14, 2011 at 14:59

38 votes

8 answers

28k views

HTML <label> command doesn't work in Iphone browser

In a html page I am making, I tried to make div's clickable using html and css. This has worked perfectly in some major browsers I have tested it in (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari), as well as an HTC ...

arnehehe

1,388

asked Mar 24, 2011 at 15:36

36 votes

11 answers

20k views

iOS5 show numeric keypad by default without using type="number" or type="tel"

With the release of iOS5, Apple has added their own validation to input type="number" form fields. This is causing some issues; see this question below which sums it up: Input type='number' ...

marissajmc

2,603

asked Nov 22, 2011 at 5:46

35 votes

4 answers

22k views

Why use IBM Worklight if it ultimately uses PhoneGap?

Actually i have to build a cross platform application(for iphone and android only) and the client is emphasizing to use IBM Worklight for this. After searching about Worklight i came to know that it ...

iVipS

1,485

asked Sep 13, 2012 at 9:31

35 votes

6 answers

20k views

Can I prevent phone from sleep on a webpage

In app I can use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.WakeLock.html but is there a way to keep webpage running and prevent from going to sleep? It would be nice if it runs at ...

set

351

asked May 24, 2011 at 6:53

34 votes

7 answers

39k views

Apple touch icon isn't showing up on the home screen

I'm using the following code to get touch icons for mobile devices - it's based on the html5boilerplate/mobile example: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <...

gpr

959

asked Oct 25, 2011 at 6:20

33 votes

1 answer

24k views

Safari Viewport Bug, Issues with Fixed Position and Bottom or Top

I'm experiencing something strange in iOS 12.3.1 Safari. This issue dates back to at least iOS 12.2, but I imagine it's been a problem for much longer than that. The issue manifests itself when trying ...

oldboy

5,771

asked Jun 16, 2019 at 22:01

32 votes

8 answers

41k views

Can a website (HTML5,JavaScript) access a mobile device's (android/iPhone) contact list, SDCard files

Can a website (HTML5,JavaScript) access a mobile device's (android/iPhone) contact list, SDCard files? A website as in one opened in a browser not a phonegap application/webapp.

chaitanyad

1,008

asked Jun 6, 2014 at 7:49

32 votes

7 answers

49k views

Manually triggering the iPhone/iPad/iPod keyboard from JavaScript

I am developing an HTML code editor using simple DIV's and capturing events. When I use this on the iPad the keyboard never pops up since i'm not technically in an editable field. Is there a way to ...

Joe Bienkowski

321

asked Jan 5, 2011 at 22:15

31 votes

12 answers

135k views

How to restrict number of characters that can be entered in HTML5 number input field on iPhone

It seems that neither of the "maxlength", "min" or "max" HTML attributes have the desired effect on iPhone for the following markup: <input type="number" maxlength="2" min="0" max="99"/> ...

Mr. Developerdude

9,352

asked Mar 23, 2012 at 14:53

31 votes

4 answers

68k views

Using php to output an mp4 video

Ok basically I have a project that requires that videos are hidden from the users while still able to see them (by using php). here's what i got so far: The video.php file has this: <?php $ch = ...

Zia

2,779

asked May 7, 2011 at 21:18

31 votes

1 answer

9k views

How do I give my websites an icon for iPhone? [duplicate]

How do I set the icon that appears proper on the iPhone for the websites I have created?

Zack Peterson

56.6k

asked Aug 4, 2008 at 19:02

30 votes

2 answers

6k views

iOS 8 - Videos and sound files won't play from home screen web app

I have an HTML5 web app which uses JWPlayer for embedded videos and podcasts. This works fine in iOS 7, both within Safari and when saved as a web app to the home screen. In iOS 8, the videos and ...

getnorthern

345

asked Sep 23, 2014 at 14:27

27 votes

4 answers

15k views

Is it possible to track click throughs from iPhone Smart Banner

We want to be able to track, using Google Analytics, any click throughs from the iPhone Smart Banner that we have added to our website. The meta code used to add the smart banner is: <meta name="...

danielsan

426

asked Oct 16, 2012 at 1:57

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