Fix CSS hover on iPhone/iPad/iPod

Question

I want to fix the hover effect on iOS ( change to touch event ) but I dont have any idea . Let me explain this . You have a text in your page :

<div class="mm">hello world</div>

With style :

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

Ok , in dekstop if you put your mouse over the text you get a #ddd background , right ? But in iOS if you touch the text you get nothing but if you tap it it gets a ugly and sticky #ddd background which is not nice and I want the user get the hover effect when he touch that text ( something like touchevent I think ) . But I see some websites fixed that like freemyappps.com or ( please check this site ->D4F on your ios device and touch something to see the hover effect like eating a cake :) ) But how these sites fixed that ? How can fix like them ? Thanks

Solution 1

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>

Solution 2

Add onclick="" to anything you wish iOS to recognise as an element with a hover.

<div onclick="">Click Me!</div>

Solution 3

Some people don't know about this. You can apply it on div:hover and working on iPhone .

Add the following css to the element with :hover effect

.mm {
    cursor: pointer;
}

Solution 4

The onclick="" was very temperamental when I attempted using it.

Using :active css for tap events; just place this into your header:

<script>
    document.addEventListener("touchstart", function() {},false);
</script>

Solution 5

I"m not sure if this will have a huge impact on performance but this has done the trick for me in the past:

var mobileHover = function () {
    $('*').on('touchstart', function () {
        $(this).trigger('hover');
    }).on('touchend', function () {
        $(this).trigger('hover');
    });
};

mobileHover();

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