Jquery click not working with ipad

Question

we have a web application which is using Jquery blockUI to open a pop up and do some action. All of this works fine on Safari, and IE 8. problem is with Ipad. none of the ac

Answer 1

Thanks to the previous commenters I found all the following worked for me:

Either adding an onclick stub to the element

onclick="void(0);" 

or user a cursor pointer style

style="cursor:pointer;"

or as in my existing code my jquery code needed tap added

$(document).on('click tap','.ciAddLike',function(event)
{
    alert('like added!'); // stopped working in ios safari until tap added
});

I am adding a cross-reference back to the Apple Docs for those interested. See Apple Docs:Making Events Clickable

(I'm not sure exactly when my hybrid app stopped processing clicks but I seem to remember they worked iOS 7 and earlier.)