Disable Auto Zoom in Input Text tag - Safari on iPhone

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I made an HTML page that has an  lt input gt  tag with type  text   When I click on it using Safari on iPhone  the page becomes larger  auto zoom   Does anybody know how to disable this

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Instead of simply setting the font size to 16px, you can:

Style the input field so that it is larger than its intended size, allowing the logical font size to be set to 16px.
Use the scale() CSS transform and negative margins to shrink the input field down to the correct size.

For example, suppose your input field is originally styled with:

input[type="text"] {
    border-radius: 5px;
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 20px;
    padding: 5px;
    width: 100%;
}

If you enlarge the field by increasing all dimensions by 16 / 12 = 133.33%, then reduce using scale() by 12 / 16 = 75%, the input field will have the correct visual size (and font size), and there will be no zoom on focus.

As scale() only affects the visual size, you will also need to add negative margins to reduce the field's logical size.

With this CSS:

input[type="text"] {
    /* enlarge by 16/12 = 133.33% */
    border-radius: 6.666666667px;
    font-size: 16px;
    line-height: 26.666666667px;
    padding: 6.666666667px;
    width: 133.333333333%;

    /* scale down by 12/16 = 75% */
    transform: scale(0.75);
    transform-origin: left top;

    /* remove extra white space */
    margin-bottom: -10px;
    margin-right: -33.333333333%;
}

the input field will have a logical font size of 16px while appearing to have 12px text.

I have a blog post where I go into slightly more detail, and have this example as viewable HTML:
No input zoom in Safari on iPhone, the pixel perfect way

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This worked for me on iOS Safari and Chrome  For the input selector could be set the class or id to enclose the current   supports  -webkit-overflow-scrolling  touch       input        font-size  16px

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There s no clean way I could find  but here s a hack     1  I noticed that the mouseover event happens prior to the zoom  but the zoom happens before mousedown or focus events   2  You can dynamically change the META viewport tag using javascript  see Enable disable zoom on iPhone safari with Javascript    So  try this  shown in jquery for compactness       input type text   textarea   mouseover zoomDisable  mousedown zoomEnable   function zoomDisable         head meta name viewport    remove         head   prepend   lt meta name  viewport  content  user-scalable 0    gt       function zoomEnable         head meta name viewport    remove         head   prepend   lt meta name  viewport  content  user-scalable 1    gt         This is definitely a hack    there may be situations where mouseover down don t always catch entries exits  but it worked well in my tests and is a solid start

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In summary the answer is  set the font size of the form elements to at least 16px

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Even with these answers it took me three days to figure out what was going on and I may need the solution again in the future   My situation was slightly different from the one described   In mine  I had some contenteditable text in a div on the page   When the user clicked on a DIFFERENT div  a button of sorts  I automatically selected some text in the contenteditable div  a selection range that had previously been saved and cleared   ran a rich text execCommand on that selection  and cleared it again   This enabled me to invisibly change text colors based on user interactions with color divs elsewhere on the page  while keeping the selection normally hidden to let them see the colors in the proper context   Well  on iPad s Safari  clicking the color div resulted in the on-screen keyboard coming up  and nothing I did would prevent it   I finally figured out how the iPad s doing this   It listens for a touchstart and touchend sequence that triggers a selection of editable text   When that combination happens  it shows the on-screen keyboard   Actually  it does a dolly zoom where it expands the underlying page while zooming in on the editable text   It took me a day just to understand what I was seeing   So the solution I used was to intercept both touchstart and touchend on those particular color divs   In both handlers I stop propagation and bubbling and return false   But in the touchend event I trigger the same behavior that click triggered   So  before  Safari was triggering what I think was  touchstart    mousedown    touchend    mouseup    click   and because of my code  a text selection  in that order   The new sequence because of the intercepts is simply the text selection   Everything else gets intercepted before Safari can process it and do its keyboard stuff   The touchstart and touchend intercepts prevent the mouse events from triggering as well  and in context this is totally fine   I don t know an easier way to describe this but I think it s important to have it here because I found this thread within an hour of first encountering the issue   I m 98  sure the same fix will work with input boxes and anything else   Intercept the touch events and process them separately without letting them propagate or bubble  and consider doing any selections after a tiny timeout just to make sure Safari doesn t recognize the sequence as the keyboard trigger

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Setting a font-size  for input fields  equal to the body s font-size  seems to be what prevents the browser from zooming out or in  I d suggest to use font-size  1rem as a more elegant solution

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Amazing  there are dozens of answers here with javascript and viewports  and only one other mentions text-size-adjust which is what I believe is the best solution  You can just set this to none  Add the following CSS       -webkit-text-size-adjust  none    text-size-adjust  none

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A comment for the top answer about setting font-size to 16px asked how that is a solution  what if you want bigger smaller font   I don t know about you all  but using px for font sizes is not the best way to go  you should be using em   I ran into this issue on my responsive site where my text field is larger than 16 pixels  I had my form container set to 2rem and my input field set to 1 4em  In my mobile queries I change html font-size depending on the viewport  Since the default html is 10  my input field calculates to 28px on desktop  To remove the auto-zoom I had to change my input to 1 6em  This increased my font size to 32px  Just slightly higher and hardly noticeable  On my iPhone 4 amp 5 I change my html font-size to 15px for portrait and back to 10px for landscape  It appeard that the sweet spot for that pixel size was 48px which is why I changed to from 1 4em  42px  to 1 6em  48px    The thing you need to do is find the sweet spot on font-size and then convert it backwards in your rem em sizes

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I used Christina s solution above  but with a small modification for bootstrap and another rule to apply to desktop computers  Bootstrap s default font-size is 14px which causes the zoom  The following changes it to 16px for  form controls  in Bootstrap  preventing the zoom    media screen and  -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio 0       form-control       font-size  16px          And back to 14px for non-mobile browsers    media  min-width  768px       form-control       font-size  14px          I tried using  form-control focus  which left it at 14px except on focus which changed it to 16px and it did not fix the zoom problem with iOS8  At least on my iPhone using iOS8  the font-size has to be 16px before focus for the iPhone to not zoom the page

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Pseudo elements like  focus don t work as they used to  From iOS 11  a simple reset declaration can be added before your main styles  providing you don t override them with a smaller font size       Prevent zoom    select  input  textarea     font-size  16px      It s worth mentioning that for CSS libraries such as Tachyons css then it s easy to accidentally override your font size    For example class  f5 is equivalent to  fontSize  1rem  which is fine if you have kept the body font scale at the default    However  if you choose font size class  f6 this will be equivalent to fontSize   875rem on a small display upwards  In that instance you ll need to be more specific about your reset declarations         Prevent zoom      select  input  textarea       font-size  16px important        media screen and  min-width  30em        not small

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You can prevent Safari from automatically zooming in on text fields during user input without disabling the user   s ability to pinch zoom  Just add maximum-scale 1 but leave out the user-scale attribute suggested in other answers   It is a worthwhile option if you have a form in a layer that    floats    around if zoomed  which can cause important UI elements to move off screen    lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1  maximum-scale 1  gt

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In Angular you can use directives to prevent zooming on focus on IOS devices  No meta tag to preserve accessibility   import   Directive  ElementRef  HostListener   from   angular core    const MINIMAL FONT SIZE BEFORE ZOOMING IN PX   16    Directive   selector    noZoomiOS       export class NoZoomiOSDirective     constructor private el  ElementRef       HostListener  focus     onFocus         this setFontSize            HostListener  mousedown     onMouseDown         this setFontSize    MINIMAL FONT SIZE BEFORE ZOOMING IN PX px         private setFontSize size  string      const   fontSize  currentInputFontSize     window getComputedStyle this el nativeElement  null      if  MINIMAL FONT SIZE BEFORE ZOOMING IN PX  lt    currentInputFontSize match   d             return          const iOS   navigator platform  amp  amp   iPad iPhone iPod  test navigator platform     iOS        amp  amp   this el nativeElement style fontSize   size          You can use it like this  lt input noZoomiOS  gt  after you declare it in your   module ts

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IT S WORK    I FINISH MY SEARCH JOURNEY    lt meta name  viewport  content  width 640px  initial-scale  5  maximum-scale  5    gt    tested on iPhone OS6  Android 2 3 3 Emulator  i have a mobile website that has a fixed width of 640px  and i was facing the autozoom on focus to   i was trying allot of slutions but none was working on both iPhone and Android    now for me it s ok to disable the zoom because the website was mobile-first design   this is where i find it  How to do viewport sizing and scaling for cross browser support

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Javascript hack which is working on iOS 7  This is based on  dlo  s answer but mouseover and mouseout events are replaced by touchstart and touchend events  Basicly this script add a half second timeout before the zoom would enabled again to prevent zooming      input type text   textarea   on    touchstart    function         zoomDisable            input type text   textarea   on    touchend    function         setTimeout zoomEnable  500         function zoomDisable         head meta name viewport    remove         head   prepend   lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  user-scalable 0    gt       function zoomEnable         head meta name viewport    remove         head   prepend   lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  user-scalable 1    gt

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After reading almost every single line here and testing the various solutions  this is  thanks to all who shared their solutions  what I came up with  tested and working for me on iPhone 7 iOS 10 x     media screen and  -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio 0        input type  email   hover      input type  number   hover      input type  search   hover      input type  text   hover      input type  tel   hover      input type  url   hover      input type  password   hover      textarea hover      select hover font-size  initial      media  min-width  768px        input type  email   hover      input type  number   hover      input type  search   hover      input type  text   hover      input type  tel   hover      input type  url   hover      input type  password   hover      textarea hover      select hover font-size  inherit       It has some cons  though  noticeably a  jump  as result of the quick font size change occuring between the  hover ed and  focus ed states - and the redraw impact on performance

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I ve had to  fix  the auto zoom into form controls issue for a Dutch University website  which used 15px in form controls   I came up with the following set of requirements    user must still be able zoom in font-size must remain the same no flashes of temporary different styling no jQuery requirement must work on newest iOS and not hinder any other OS device combination if possible no magic timeouts  and if needed correctly clear timers   This is what I came up with so far      NOTE  This code overrides the viewport settings  an improvement would be       to take the original value and only add or change the user-scalable value        optionally only activate for iOS  done because I havn t tested the effect under other OS devices combinations such as Android  var iOS   navigator platform  amp  amp   iPad iPhone iPod  test navigator platform  if  iOS    preventZoomOnFocus      function preventZoomOnFocus       document documentElement addEventListener  touchstart   onTouchStart     document documentElement addEventListener  focusin   onFocusIn       let dont disable for     checkbox    radio    file    button    image    submit    reset    hidden      let disable for     text    search    password    email    tel    url    number    date    datetime-local    month    year    color      function onTouchStart evt      let tn   evt target tagName        No need to do anything if the initial target isn t a known element      which will cause a zoom upon receiving focus   if      tn     SELECT         amp  amp   tn     TEXTAREA         amp  amp   tn     INPUT     dont disable for indexOf evt target getAttribute  type     gt  -1             return        disable zoom   setViewport  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  user-scalable 0          NOTE  for now assuming this focusIn is caused by user interaction function onFocusIn evt         reenable zoom   setViewport  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  user-scalable 1          add or update the  lt meta name  viewport  gt  element function setViewport newvalue      let vpnode   document documentElement querySelector  head meta name  viewport        if  vpnode      vpnode setAttribute  content  newvalue     else         vpnode   document createElement  meta        vpnode setAttribute  name    viewport        vpnode setAttribute  content   newvalue           Some notes    Note that so far I ve only tested it on iOS 11 3 1  but will test it on a few other versions soon Use of focusIn events means it requires at least iOS 5 1  but I see sites we build working in iOS versions older as 9 as a cool bonus anyway  Using event-delegation because a lot of sites I work on have pages which might dynamically create form controls Setting the eventListeners to the html element  documentElement  so as not having to wait for body to become available  don t want to bother checking if document has ready loaded state or needing to wait for the DOMContentLoaded event

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Inspired by  jirikuchta  s answer  I solved this problem by adding this bit of CSS    myTextArea active     font-size  16px      16px  is safer I assume  although  1rem  works too        No JS  and I don t notice any flash or anything   It s worth noting that a viewport with maximum-scale 1 also works  but not when the page is loaded as an iframe  or if you have some other script modifying the viewport  etc

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After a while of while trying I came up with this solution     set font-size to 16px to prevent zoom  input addEventListener  mousedown   function  e      e target style fontSize    16px           change font-size back to its initial value so the design will not break input addEventListener  focus   function  e      e target style fontSize               On  mousedown  it sets font-size of input to 16px  This will prevent the zooming  On focus event it changes font-size back to initial value    Unlike solutions posted before  this will let you set the font-size of the input to whatever you want

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Based on Stephen Walsh s answer    This code works without changing the font size of inputs on focus  which looks lame   plus it still works with FastClick  which I suggest adding to all mobile sites to help bring the  snappy   Adjust your  viewport width  to suit your needs      disable autozoom when input is focused     var  viewportMeta      head  gt  meta name  viewport             input  select  textarea   bind  touchend   function event             viewportMeta attr  content    width 640  user-scalable 0            setTimeout function     viewportMeta attr  content    width 640  user-scalable 1       1

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It took me a while to find it but here s the best code that I found      http   nerd vasilis nl prevent-ios-from-zooming-onfocus   var  viewportMeta      meta name  viewport         input  select  textarea   bind  focus blur   function event     viewportMeta attr  content    width device-width initial-scale 1 maximum-scale             event type     blur    10   1

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If your website is properly designed for a mobile device you could decide not allow scaling    lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  maximum-scale 1 0  user-scalable 0    gt    This solves the problem that your mobile page or form is going to  float  around

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I have looked through multiple answers    The answer with setting maximum-scale 1 in meta tag works fine on iOS devices but disables the pinch to zoom functionality on Android devices  The one with setting font-size  16px  onfocus is too hacky for me   So I wrote a JS function to dynamically change meta tag  var iOS   navigator platform  amp  amp   iPad iPhone iPod  test navigator platform   if  iOS      document head querySelector  meta name  quot viewport quot     content    quot width device-width  initial-scale 1  maximum-scale 1 quot   else     document head querySelector  meta name  quot viewport quot     content    quot width device-width  initial-scale 1 quot

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Please do not use Javascript or hacks to make it work  That will affect your project score on the web   This will do the trick   input  input active  input focus  input focus-within  input hover  input visited       font-size  16px important

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The browser will zoom if the font-size is less than 16px and the default font-size for form elements is 11px  at least in Chrome and Safari    Additionally  the select element needs to have the focus pseudo-class attached   input type  color    input type  date    input type  datetime    input type  datetime-local    input type  email    input type  month    input type  number    input type  password    input type  search    input type  tel    input type  text    input type  time    input type  url    input type  week    select focus  textarea     font-size  16px      It s not necessary to use all the above  you can just style the elements you need  eg  just text  number  and textarea   input type  text    input type  number    textarea     font-size  16px      Alternate solution to have the input elements inherit from a parent style   body     font-size  16px    input type  text       font-size  inherit

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By the way  if you use Bootstrap  you can just use this variant    form-control     font-size  16px

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Add user-scalable 0 to viewport meta as following   lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1  user-scalable 0  gt    Worked for me

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I did this  also with jQuery      input type search    on  focus   function         replace CSS font-size with 16px to disable auto zoom on iOS     this  data  fontSize     this  css  font-size    css  font-size    16px       on  blur   function         put back the CSS font-size     this  css  font-size     this  data  fontSize           Of course  some other elements in the interface may have to be adapted if this 16px font-size breaks the design

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This worked for me   input  textarea       font-size  initial

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Proper way to fix this issue is to change meta viewport to   x000D   x000D   lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1  maximum-scale 1  user-scalable 0   gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   Important  do not set minimum-scale  This keeps the page manually zoomable

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As many other answers have already pointed out  this can be achieved by adding maximum-scale to the meta viewport tag  However  this has the negative consequence of disabling user zoom on Android devices   It does not disable user zoom on iOS devices since v10    We can use JavaScript to dynamically add maximum-scale to the meta viewport when the device is iOS  This achieves the best of both worlds  we allow the user to zoom and prevent iOS from zooming into text fields on focus     maximum-scale               iOS  can zoom   iOS  no text field zoom   Android  can zoom     -------------------------   -------------   -----------------------   -----------------     yes                         yes             yes                       no                    no                          yes             no                        yes                   yes on iOS  no on Android   yes             yes                       yes                   Code   const addMaximumScaleToMetaViewport        gt      const el   document querySelector  meta name viewport        if  el     null        let content   el getAttribute  content        let re    maximum -scale  0-9     g       if  re test content             content   content replace re   maximum-scale 1 0          else           content    content   maximum-scale 1 0   join                  el setAttribute  content   content           const disableIosTextFieldZoom   addMaximumScaleToMetaViewport      https   stackoverflow com questions 9038625 detect-if-device-is-ios 9039885 9039885 const checkIsIOS        gt     iPad iPhone iPod  test navigator userAgent   amp  amp   window MSStream   if  checkIsIOS        disableIosTextFieldZoom

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I recently  today  D  had to integrate this behavior  In order to not impact the original design fields  including combo  I opted to apply the transformation at the focus of the field   input type  text   focus  input type  password   focus  textarea focus  select focus     font-size  16px

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As the automatical zoom-in  with no zoom-out  is still annonying on iPhone  here s a JavaScript based on dlo s suggestion working with focus blur   Zooming is disabled as soon as a text input is fucused and re-anabled when the input is left   Note  Some users may not apprechiate editing texts in a small text input  Therefore  I personally prefer to change the input s text size during editing  see code below     lt script type  text javascript  gt   lt  -- function attachEvent element  evtId  handler        if  element addEventListener            element addEventListener evtId  handler  false         else if  element attachEvent            var ieEvtId    on  evtId          element attachEvent ieEvtId  handler         else           var legEvtId    on  evtId          element legEvtId    handler          function onBeforeZoom evt        var viewportmeta   document querySelector  meta name  viewport          if  viewportmeta            viewportmeta content    user-scalable 0           function onAfterZoom evt        var viewportmeta   document querySelector  meta name  viewport          if  viewportmeta            viewportmeta content    width device-width  user-scalable 1           function disableZoom            Search all relevant input elements and attach zoom-events     var inputs   document getElementsByTagName  input        for  var i 0  i lt inputs length  i              attachEvent inputs i    focus   onBeforeZoom           attachEvent inputs i    blur   onAfterZoom           if  navigator userAgent match  iPhone i     navigator userAgent match  iPad i         attachEvent window   load   disableZoom        -- gt   lt  script gt    The following code will change an input s text size to 16 pixel  calculated  i e   in the current zoom size  during the element has the focus  iPhone will therefore not automatically zoom-in   Note  The zoom factor is calculated based on window innerWidth and iPhone s display with of 320 pixels  This will only be valid for iPhone in  portrait mode    lt script type  text javascript  gt   lt  -- function attachEvent element  evtId  handler        if  element addEventListener            element addEventListener evtId  handler  false         else if  element attachEvent            var ieEvtId    on  evtId          element attachEvent ieEvtId  handler         else           var legEvtId    on  evtId          element legEvtId    handler          function getSender evt  local        if   evt            evt   window event            var sender      if  evt srcElement            sender   evt srcElement        else           sender   local            return sender    function onBeforeZoom evt        var zoom   320   window innerWidth      var element   getSender evt       element style fontSize   Math ceil 16   zoom     px     function onAfterZoom evt        var element   getSender evt       element style fontSize         function disableZoom            Search all relevant input elements and attach zoom-events     var inputs   document getElementsByTagName  input        for  var i 0  i lt inputs length  i              attachEvent inputs i    focus   onBeforeZoom           attachEvent inputs i    blur   onAfterZoom           if  navigator userAgent match  iPhone i         attachEvent window   load   disableZoom        -- gt   lt  script gt

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input type  text   textarea  font-size 1em

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media screen and  -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio 0       select focus    textarea focus    input focus       font-size  16px      background   eee          New  IOS will still zoom  unless you use 16px on the input without the focus    media screen and  -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio 0       select    textarea    input       font-size  16px          I added a background since IOS adds no background on the select

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Here is a hack I used on one of my projects   select       font-size  2 6rem     1rem   10px             transform-origin               transform  scale 0 5           Ended up with the initial styles and scale I wanted but no zoom on focus

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I see people here do some strange stuff with JavaScript or the viewport function and turning off all manually zooming on devices  That shouldn t be a solution in my opinion  Adding this CSS snippet will turn off the auto-zoom in iOS without changing your font-size to a fixed number like 16px   By default  I use 93 8   15px  font-size at input fields and by adding my CSS snippet this stays at 93 8   No need to change to 16px or make it a fixed number   input type  text   focus  textarea focus       -webkit-text-size-adjust  100

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