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Safari is Apple's web browser, the default browser on macOS and iOS.

Safari is the web browser bundled with iOS and macOS, operating systems from Apple. Previously, Windows was a supported platform but was discontinued after version 5.

Safari uses the WebKit rendering engine and the JavaScript Core JavaScript engine.

For Safari for iOS devices, there is the tag.

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How to remove the border highlight on an input text element

When an HTML element is 'focused' (currently selected/tabbed into), many browsers (at least Safari and Chrome) will put a blue border around it. For the layout I am working on, this is distracting and does not look right.
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What is the difference between screenX/Y, clientX/Y and pageX/Y?

What is the difference between screenX/Y, clientX/Y and pageX/Y? Also for iPad Safari, are the calculations similar as on desktop—OR there is some difference because of viewport? It would be great if you could point me to an example.
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Array state will be cached in iOS 12 Safari. Is it a bug or feature?

Update at 2018.10.31 This bug has been fixed in iOS 12.1, have a good day~ I found a problem with Array's value state in the newly released iOS 12 Safari, for example, code like this: …
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How to disable phone number linking in Mobile Safari?

Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is turning that into a phone number link. Is it possible to disable this behavior…
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How to detect if the OS is in dark mode in browsers?

Similar to "How to detect if OS X is in dark mode?" only for browsers. Has anyone found if there is a way to detect if the user's system is in the new OS X Dark Mode in Safari/Chrome/Firefox? We would like to change our site's design to be dark-mode…
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Get the real width and height of an image with JavaScript? (in Safari/Chrome)

I am creating a jQuery plugin. How do I get the real image width and height with Javascript in Safari? The following works with Firefox 3, IE7 and Opera 9: var pic = $("img") // need to remove these in of case img-element has set width and…
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Is there a way to apply styles to Safari only?

I'm trying to find a way to apply CSS just to Safari, but everything I find also applies to Chrome. I know these are currently both WebKit browsers, but I'm having problems with div alignments in Chrome and Safari; each displays differently. I have…
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Invalid date in safari

alert(new Date('2010-11-29')); chrome, ff doesn't have problems with this, but safari cries "invalid date". Why ? edit : ok, as per the comments below, I used string parsing and tried this : alert(new Date('11-29-2010')); //doesn't work in…
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How can I force WebKit to redraw/repaint to propagate style changes?

I have some trivial JavaScript to effect a style change: sel = document.getElementById('my_id'); sel.className = sel.className.replace(/item-[1-9]-selected/,'item-1-selected'); return false; This works fine with the latest versions of FF, Opera and…
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Testing web application on Mac/Safari when I don't own a Mac

Having been caught out recently when a web site I launched displayed perfectly on IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari on Windows but was corrupted when viewed using Safari on the Mac (by a potential customer), I need to start testing how my sites look…
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Video auto play is not working in Safari and Chrome desktop browser

I spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out why video embedded like here:
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What does the shrink-to-fit viewport meta attribute do?

I'm having trouble finding documentation for this. Is it Safari specific? There was a recent bug in iOS 9 (here), the solution to which is adding shrink-to-fit=no to the viewport meta. What does this code do?
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Swift Open Link in Safari

I am currently opening the link in my app in a WebView, but I'm looking for an option to open the link in Safari instead.
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Works in Chrome, but breaks in Safari: Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name /(?<=\/)([^#]+)(?=#*)/

In my Javascript code, this regex /(?<=\/)([^#]+)(?=#*)/ works fine in Chrome, but in safari, I get: Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name Any ideas?
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iPad Web App: Detect Virtual Keyboard Using JavaScript in Safari?

I'm writing a web app for the iPad (not a regular App Store app - it's written using HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Since the keyboard fills up a huge part of the screen, it would make sense to change the app's layout to fit the remaining space when the…
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