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Second update: Looks like one of my functions (resetFigures) was preventing the event handler, so moving that to the end of the bind function sorted it out.

Update: I realized after some basic testing that the click events were registering, it's just that the box fails to flip when tapped.

I have the basic aesthetic functionality of my site working in Chrome and Firefox, but it refuses to behave properly on iOS (test on iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1 and iPad with iOS 4.3.5).

You can view the site and of course the scripts (main.js) here: http://bos.rggwebdesigns.com/

I've read that iOS doesn't really handle jQuery click events properly, but I'm struggling to figure out a fix. A couple threads here on Stack Overflow mentioned the live() method, but implementing it like follows (as well as adding onclick="" to the clickable elements) didn't seem to work:

$('.card').live('click touchstart', function() {
        var figure = $(this).children('.back');
        var button = figure.find('.button');
        var column = $(this).parents().eq(1);
        $('.column').removeAttr('style');
        column.css('z-index', 2000);
        resetFigures();
        if(flipCard(this)){
            swoosh.pause();
            swoosh.currentTime = 0;
            swoosh.play();
        }
    });

I also came across this interesting workaround project: http://aanandprasad.com/articles/jquery-tappable/. However, I had no luck with that either:

$('.card').tappable(function() {
        var figure = $(this).children('.back');
        var button = figure.find('.button');
        var column = $(this).parents().eq(1);
        $('.column').removeAttr('style');
        column.css('z-index', 2000);
        resetFigures();
        if(flipCard(this)){
            swoosh.pause();
            swoosh.currentTime = 0;
            swoosh.play();
        }
    });

Also, please correct me if I've been mislead, but according to this site, 3D transforms are supported in iOS with the appropriate prefixes: http://caniuse.com/transforms3d

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There is an issue with iOS not registering click/touch events bound to elements added after DOM loads.

While PPK has this advice: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/click_event_del.html

I've found this the easy fix, simply add this to the css:

cursor: pointer;
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    wow... how is this real?! Safari done gone done it this time. This Quirksblog article clears it up further: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/10/click_event_del_1.html – Larry Mar 26 '14 at 00:11
  • This absolutely saved me a TON of time. How would one know to try something like this? Apple has to get this together. They probably won't but gee wiz -__- – Martavis P. Apr 10 '15 at 06:20
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    WTF!? I'm wondering why click events don't work in IOS in a phonegap app using jquery .on(). I add cursor:pointer to a class and walla! This is ridiculous but it works. This is a 5 year old topic. – Khary Jul 15 '15 at 00:43
  • Can confirm this worked for me, but it's weird it's a thing in the first place xD I tried binding all future events on click and tap but wouldn't work on iOS until I did cursor: pointer fix. – Kiwizoom Sep 26 '16 at 18:32
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    A few years ago in some Apple office: "Let's depend on a css value to decide whether we should register a click event or not". Genius! – Tashows Aug 17 '17 at 21:20
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    After despairing over my script for hours, frantically trying to work out where I did something wrong to cause a simple button to not work on iOS devices, I found this through DuckDuckGo, think "this can't work", try it anyway because desperate, and it actually works. This messes with my brain. – Tijmen Sep 04 '17 at 12:32
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    Apply `cursor: pointer;` to the element you want to listen to its `listen` event – deerchao Mar 21 '18 at 12:37
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    July 2018. This is still the solution. I don't think however, this is a bug but a design decision by iOS. For whatever reason, they think it's a good idea for CSS to influence the JavaScript behaviour. – Abdul Sadik Yalcin Jul 05 '18 at 09:46
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    If you are using tag ``, you can also add **href** attribute into the tag. `click here` => `click here`. – revoke Dec 13 '18 at 11:02
  • It might be crazy posting this in 2023, but for me, this solution is still not working on iOS 16.4.1 both Safari and Chrome, with jQuery 3.7.0. – nikitahl Aug 12 '23 at 18:00
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Recently when working on a web app for a client, I noticed that any click events added to a non-anchor element didn't work on the iPad or iPhone. All desktop and other mobile devices worked fine - but as the Apple products are the most popular mobile devices, it was important to get it fixed.

Turns out that any non-anchor element assigned a click handler in jQuery must either have an onClick attribute (can be empty like below):

onClick=""

OR

The element css needs to have the following declaration:

cursor:pointer

Strange, but that's what it took to get things working again!
source:http://www.mitch-solutions.com/blog/17-ipad-jquery-live-click-events-not-working

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You should bind the tap event, the click does not exist on mobile safari or in the UIWbview. You can also use this polyfill ,to avoid the 300ms delay when a link is touched.

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  • I tried implementing bind(), with and without jQuery Mobile for 'tap' and 'vclick', but it didn't work. Is it possible that the hover pseudo-element is interfering since on iOS a tap on an element with `:hover` defined is the equivalent of mouseover? – Bobe Feb 10 '13 at 09:58
  • I don't know about the hover sorry – oiledCode Feb 10 '13 at 10:24
  • It's fine. It was simply a matter of making sure every `:hover` selector was preceded by `.no-touch`. Still doesn't fix the event handling. – Bobe Feb 10 '13 at 10:37