I am using CSS3 hover and transitions to show and hide an image. On mobile devices I would like to use the same transition for touch events.
Basically, the first to
If anyone is still having this issue in 2020 and beyond this article helped me.
My issue was that :hover
effect wasn't working on iPhones in the Safari browser. I couldn't really use the JS solutions I found on other answers and resources because the elements I wanted to attach :hover
to were created dynamically on fetching data from a 3rd party API. Just adding ontouchmove
to the root HTML element and :hover
to the appropriate element in the CSS folder fixed it. (Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker :p)
If you don't want to modify your HTML code, you could try this:
<script>
document.body.addEventListener('touchstart',function(){},false);
</script>
Use the :active
pseudo-class in your css, then add ontouchstart=""
and onmouseover=""
to the body tag.
The following code is excerpted from my site, in which I have buttons that get smaller and glow white when hovered(on pcs) or held down(on touch devices)
<style>
.boxbutton:active{
-webkit-transform:scale(0.9);
-moz-transform:scale(0.9);
-ms-transform:scale(0.9);
-o-transform:scale(0.9);
transform:scale(0.9);
-webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 20px #FFF;
-moz-box-shadow:0px 0px 20px #FFF;
-o-box-shadow:0px 0px 20px #FFF;
box-shadow:0px 0px 20px #FFF;
}
</style>
<body ontouchstart="">
<a href="#teamdiv">
<div class="boxbutton" id="teambb">
<h5>Team</h5>
</div>
</a>
</body>
The following edits are no longer relevant because I have deleted the original, incorrect instructions, but if you were here before these may still be helpful
EDIT: I have discovered it works more reliably if, rather than putting ontouchstart=""
in each link, put it in the <body>
tag. So your body tag should look like this<body ontouchstart="">
and your links look like this
<a href="#teamdiv">
<div class="boxbutton" id="teambb">
<h5>Team</h5>
</div></a>
EDIT 2: I have figured out that, rather than copying your CSS and use screen size queries for desktop, just add `onmouseover="" to the body tag also, so the :active pseudo class will be called by the mouse on the desktop AND by touches on mobile. You can just ignore the rambling about media queries if you do this.