Mobile overflow scroll and overflow-scrolling touch prevent viewport bounce

Question

On a mobile  Safari  webviews  wherever    overflow scroll and overflow-scrolling  touch give a pretty smooth scroll  which is cool  But  it makes the page  quot bounce quot   area circled below   which is not the case when you are not using it  but which makes the experience a little less  quot native quot   and more simply  as far as I can have an opinion about it  is absolutely un-useful  Is there a way to prevent it to happen

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I ve managed to find a CSS workaround to preventing bouncing of the viewport  The key was to wrap the content in 3 divs with -webkit-touch-overflow scroll applied to them  The final div should have a min-height of 101   In addition  you should explicitly set fixed widths heights on the body tag representing the size of your device  I ve added a red background on the body to demonstrate that it is the content that is now bouncing and not the mobile safari viewport   Source code below and here is a plunker  this has been tested on iOS7 GM too   http   embed plnkr co NCOFoY preview  If you intend to run this as a full-screen app on iPhone 5  modify the height to 1136px  when apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style is set to  black-translucent  or 1096px when set to  black    920x is the height of the viewport once the chrome of mobile safari has been taken into account     lt  doctype html gt   lt html gt    lt head gt       lt meta name  viewport  content  initial-scale 0 5 maximum-scale 0 5 minimum-scale 0 5 user-scalable no    gt       lt style gt          body   width  640px  height  920px  overflow  hidden  margin  0  padding  0  background  red             no-bounce   width  100   height  100   overflow-y  scroll  -webkit-overflow-scrolling  touch             no-bounce  gt  div   width  100   height  100   overflow-y  scroll  -webkit-overflow-scrolling  touch             no-bounce  gt  div  gt  div   width  100   min-height  101   font-size  30px            p   display  block  height  50px         lt  style gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt        lt div class  no-bounce  gt           lt div gt               lt div gt                   lt h1 gt Some title lt  h1 gt                   lt p gt item 1 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 2 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 3 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 4 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 5 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 6 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 7 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 8 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 9 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 10 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 11 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 12 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 13 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 14 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 15 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 16 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 17 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 18 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 19 lt  p gt                   lt p gt item 20 lt  p gt               lt  div gt           lt  div gt       lt  div gt    lt  body gt    lt  html gt

User · Answer

body     position  fixed    height  100

User · Answer

you could try         not   div   bind  touchmove   false     add this if necessary      div   bind  touchmove      note that everything is fixed except  div

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This answer seems quite outdated and not adapt for nowadays single page applications  In my case I found the solution thank to this aricle where a simple but effective solution is proposed   x000D   x000D  html  body     position  fixed    overflow  hidden    x000D   x000D   x000D   This solution it s not applicable if your body is your scroll container

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There s a great blog post on this here   http   www kylejlarson com blog 2011 fixed-elements-and-scrolling-divs-in-ios-5   Along with a demo here   http   www kylejlarson com files iosdemo   In summary  you can use the following on a div containing your main content    scrollable       position  absolute      top  50px      left  0      right  0      bottom  0      overflow  scroll      -webkit-overflow-scrolling  touch      The problem I think you re describing is when you try to scroll up within a div that is already at the top - it then scrolls up the page instead of up the div and causes a bounce effect at the top of the page  I think your question is asking how to get rid of this   In order to fix this  the author suggests that you use ScrollFix to auto increase the height of scrollable divs   It s also worth noting that you can use the following to prevent the user from scrolling up e g  in a navigation element   document addEventListener  touchmove   function event       if event target parentNode className indexOf  noBounce      -1     event target className indexOf  noBounce      -1         event preventDefault         false     Unfortunately there are still some issues with ScrollFix  e g  when using form fields   but the issues list on ScrollFix is a good place to look for alternatives  Some alternative approaches are discussed in this issue   Other alternatives  also mentioned in the blog post  are Scrollability and iScroll

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