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Topic: iPhone/iPad problem

Posted By: JohnLug
Subject: iPhone/iPad problem
Date Posted: 28 August 2015 at 7:55pm

Been running WWF for quite some time with few issued.

Now, all of a sudden, when looking at posts, and needed to edit it or whatever other reason, nothing seems to work.

I can click on the pull down menu for the post, click on "Edit" and nothing happens.

Thi does NOT happen with PC's. Just Apple products.

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Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 28 August 2015 at 8:05pm

Hmm, just tried it on THIS forum, same thing!!

When I came back to this post and tried clicking on the "Post Options" and tried clicking the "Edit Post" button, NOTHING HAPPENS with the iPad. But again, it DOES work with a PC.

Help Cry

Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 30 August 2015 at 3:46pm

Am I the only one who is having problems with this forum and using iPad/iPhone??

Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 05 September 2015 at 10:14pm

I wish someone would respond about iPad/iPhone not opening the pull down menus.

Feeling a bit neglected here/ :(

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 September 2015 at 8:53am

It does appear that updates to Sarafi on the IPad have broken many of the links particularly in drop downs.

Will look in to fixing the issue in future updates.

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Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 07 September 2015 at 1:19pm

If possible, do you have any idea which file(s) affect this.

Then, at least for now, I can revert back to the older ones.
Right now, I'm getting lots of flack from my members.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 8:28am

The way in which the drop down links work has not been changed since being introduced back around 2008.

It is not changes to Web Wiz Forums that has broken the links from working but changes to Safari on the IPad and IPhone that has stopped the links in drop downs from working.

Rolling back files in Web Wiz Forums would make no differences as there are no changes in Web Wiz Forums, the changes are to Safari.

It may well be a bug if Safari on the IPad and IPhone causing the issue, but a lack of any developer or debugging tools on these platforms make it impossible to debug.

It may be a case of having to completely rewrite the way drop downs work in Web Wiz Forums until can find a new way that works for Safari on IPads and IPhones.

This unfortunately means there is no quick fix for this issue.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 9:38am

It appears the issue is a CSS problem with Safari on the IPad.

A quick fix for now is to open the CSS style sheet for your forum and find the following


.dropDownMenu a:hover, .dropDownMenu a:visited:hover, .dropDownStatusBar a:hover {
    color : #FFFFFF;
    display:block;
    background: #9AACD6;
    width: 100%;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
}

and change it to;


.dropDownMenu a:hover, .dropDownMenu a:visited:hover, .dropDownStatusBar a:hover {
    color : #FFFFFF;
    //display:block;
    background: #9AACD6;
    width: 100%;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
}

This will mean that the block hover affect when using drop downs no-longer works, but will for the moment allow the drop down menu links to work in Safari on the IPad.

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Posted By: rune
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 10:32am

I just noticed this thread, and did a google on the problem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18047353/fix---on-iphone-ipad-ipod - Here is another suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't have an iPad myself, so I'm unable to test it.

You can apply it on div:hover and working on iphone. Here's the trick... add this to the element with :hover effect

.mm { cursor: pointer }

Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 1:49pm

THANK YOU!!!!
Big smile

Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 1:51pm

rune,

Sorry for seeming to be so dense, but where would I put your fix?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 3:15pm

Thanks rune, unfortunately the fix does not work.

The solution so far is either to rewrite the drop downs to use a different method that I have working, or do not use the block hover CSS for the drop downs that highlights the line when you move the mouse over it.

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Posted By: JohnLug
Date Posted: 08 September 2015 at 3:51pm

Bruce, thanks for checking that.

I'm just happy to have the DD menus working again. :)

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 October 2015 at 11:33am

This CSS bug in Safari that prevented the drop down menus from working appears to have been fixed in IOS 9.01 and drop down menus are now working again on the IPad.

I have not tested on the IPhone as do not have an IPhone available to test with.

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