Some iOS issues

I made a website that has a few issues: www.gundelgebauer.de

On the computer the (sub)menu does exactly what I want, it closes automatically after clicking on a link. But on iPad2 the (sub)menu stays there forever after clicking. How to change that?

  1. If I go back from the contact form to the main page the smooth scroll function of the mainpage does not work correctly anymore on iPad2. With Safari always, with Chrome sometimes. After hand-scrolling for one time, everything works fine again. How to avoid that?

  2. All the text fields of the contact form have the same fixed width (250px). Again on iPad2 the text area field will be displayed with less width as the fields above. How to change that?

  3. After clicking the „submit site folder“ button in the site folder action I get an error message"xmlURL.match has no properties". How to fix that?

Any help and suggestions appreciated very much!

www.gundelgabuer.de


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For 2- Are you trying to smooth-scroll back to the very top of the page, or to an inline element? I have seen problems with that. If your target element for top is actually a few pixels below the top of the page (and absolutely positioned), then the arithmetic is properly considered and the smooth scroll works again.

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For 2- Are you trying to smooth-scroll back to the very top of the page, or to an inline element?

No, the link back from the contact form is a link to the page - not to the first/top target anchor. Maybe I should change that and see if this works out better?

And any ideas to the other issues?


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I’m a just say, that on all ipads the menu remains open - except when you
are at the top and touch outside the menu, then it closes.

On touch devices where the menu isn’t set to go to the mobile hamburger,
then perhaps a strategy of narrowing the content below the top to avoid the
menu - leaving it open for touch devices as those users may prefer to keep
it for using it.

I did not check this on smartphone sizes, which the menu must clearly be
out of the way.


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I’m a just say, that on all ipads the menu remains open - except when you
are at the top and touch outside the menu, then it closes.

That is (unfortunately) exactly what I experienced. But thanks for clearing this


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What I’m trying to suggest is that you are using the wrong menu for touch
screen devices - which do not hover or roll over. You should either use the
responsive hamburger trigger built into the menu, or design your page
differently so the normal touch screen behavior of the menu doesn’t
interfere.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear before.


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Ok I see what you are meaning.

And I guess that there is no easy way to manipulate the css menu so that you can close it by touching outside even when you are not at the very top of the site?


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The CSS Menu a fairly complicated thing which I presume its makers know
better than I do its inner workings. It’s just that without hovers and
clicks, iOS can’t support the CSS of the menu… making it the wrong choice
for iOS use – unless you try to design around it. That’s the problem with
a lot of actionable solutions - they aren’t design solutions… at some point
you still need a human being to decide what needs to happen and work out
how that is achieved.


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good point, thank you!


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