Why is blur event not fired in iOS Safari Mobile (iPhone / iPad)?

Question

I\'ve two event handlers bound to an anchor tag: one for focus and blur.

The handlers fire on desktop, but in iphone and ipad only focus is fired correctly. Blur is

Answer 1

If an anchor has any events attached, the first tap on it in iOS causes the anchor to be put into the hover state, and focused. A tap away removes the hover state, but the link remains focused. This is by design. To properly control an application on iOS, you need to implement touch-based events and react to those instead of desktop ones.

There is a complete guide to using Javascript events in WebKit on iOS.