CSS :active in iOS

Question

I am using the active pseudo class for a button and it's not working in iOS only. Works on all desktop browsers and android browsers.

I have used the Safari debugging tools with an iOS device plugged in. If I leverage Forced Pseudo-Classes selecting the Active option, it works as expected. It just doesn't respond with touch.

Pretty Simple, on active it should turn red and move downward on the y-axis.

HTML

<button class="button">
 test
</button>

CSS

.button {
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 100px 100px;
  font-size: 24px;
  cursor: pointer;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  outline: none;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 15px;
  box-shadow: 0 9px #999;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
}

.button:hover {background-color: #3e8e41}

.button:active {
  background-color: red;
  box-shadow: 0 5px #666;
  transform: translateY(4px);
}

http://jsfiddle.net/fzu93c7r/4/

Answer 1

iOS is a bit strange on that. You can use ontouchstart as follows:

<button class="button" ontouchstart>test</button>

Or the pseudo :target (works for <a> tags)

.button:target { 
     background-color: red; box-shadow: 0 5px #666; transform: 
     translateY(4px); 
 }