Prevent iOS bounce without disabling scroll ability

I am trying to implement a solution to prevent the iOS bounce effect in Safari for iOS when a web page content is larger than the viewport.

The page I am working on is quite specific in it's structure, and is very similar to this page http://new.salt.ch/

The basic structure is bootstrap-based.
It has a fixed navbar at the top.
It has a full-screen background slideshow.
The slideshow has an overlay that is fixed to the bottom of the viewport.
There is a footer element that loads off-canvas and is only visible on scrolling the content.
The content scrolls behind the navbar.
The content consistes of a title which is positioned 20px below the navbar and a series of buttons that are positioned 20px above the viewport.
When scrolling, the buttons and title all move up the screen to display the footer.

The problem I am having is the same as the problem on the page http://new.salt.ch/ in that when you scroll up, you get a bounce effect at the bottom of the screen and which reveals the background and overlay.

I have tried various solutions, including iNoBounce.js, Nonbounce.js and a few other suggestions I have found on SO.

I have the same issue always...when I try to disable the bounce, all scrolling gets disabled. I am guessing this is because the content (other than the footer) is always just large enough that the scroll is not needed, and so scrolling gets disabled and the footer no longer is accessible on scroll.

Solution 1:

This code should stop the bounce as it's the HTML tag that bounces

html {
    height  : 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
    position: relative;
}
body {
    height  : 100%;
    overflow: auto;
    position: relative;
}

Solution 2:

I went through a few answers on SO and things were looking bleak until stumbled upon this code.

html {
  position: fixed;
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}

body {
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100vh;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}

The style declarations for body can be put on any element that you want to have the ability to scroll. You can also alter overflow-x and overflow-y as needed. I personally needed it to NOT scroll to the sides so I declared it as so.

update Sept 15 2017: I had to use this fix for another project and I was able to do without these declarations position: fixed and height: 100%; on the html selector. YMMV

Update April 12 2018 (mentioned in comments): If you're using fixed elements on the page, those elements may have a visual "shakiness" when scrolling.

Solution 3:

If I'm interpreting your question correctly, we've been having the same issue for years developing cross-platform mobile web apps, trying to get all the different proprietary scroll features to work correctly on each device: Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, laptop Chrome, laptop Safari, IE, and laptop Edge.

jQuery Mobile continues to try and fix this within the confines of their framework, but it's too much whack-a-mole, with the constant updates from each device maker / OS maker.

Yes, we've got solutions for each individual mobile device. And we have tested, but not seriously considered developing device-selective paging frameworks for each device, requiring us to detect each device and present a slightly different framework for each. Insanely bad idea with basically maintaining at least 3 and really up to a dozen different versions of your code.

SOLUTION: We've had the most luck by just putting your persistent header and footer on top of your page framework. Here is the general solution using in-line styles for simplicity:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Fixed Header and Footer on All Mobile Web Apps</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0" />
  <style>
    html, body { height:100%; width:100%; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="position: fixed; height:100%; width:100%; top:0; left:0;">
  <div style="height:calc(100% - 1px); width:100%; margin-top: 60px; z-index: 1; overflow-y: scroll; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;">
    [Body Content That Can Scroll if it extends beyond screen...]

  </div>
  <div style="position: absolute; top:0; left:0; width:100%; height: 60px; background:#dddddd; z-index:10;">
    [Header Content...]

  </div>
  <div style="position: absolute; bottom:0; left:0; width:100%; height: 40px; background:#cccccc; z-index:11;">
    [Footer Content...]

  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

So, the Body could be any jQuery Mobile set of pages. In fact, theoretically, the Body could be almost any content from any framework.

Special note, the line with height:calc(100% - 1px); is critical to the magic.

The seemingly infinite combinations or permutations of this issue have almost become a crusade for us over the years, trying to find the most pure, simplest, and most universally compatible solution. So after dedicating an embarrassing number of man-hours to this topic, this is not only our best solution, it's also the ONLY universally compatible approach we've found that also allows you to stick with just a singular code-base. It has been successfully tested on the latest versions of iOS, Windows Phone, Android, laptop Chrome, laptop Safari, PhoneGap, laptop Firefox, IE 9-11, and Windows Edge.

TAGS: mobile app, web app, fixed header, fixed footer, persistent header, persistent footer, scroll issue, iOS scroll bounce, Chrome scroll bounce, Android scroll bounce, webkit scroll issue, webkit touch scrolling, iOS touch scrolling issue

Solution 4:

I used iNoBounce https://github.com/lazd/iNoBounce and it works perfectly!

If you need to allow horizontal scrolling as well, there is a pull request by santi6291 at https://github.com/lazd/iNoBounce/pull/36 which fixes that

Solution 5:

For 2019 Safari on iOS 13, I was able to use this fix:

   html {
      overflow: hidden;
      height: 100%;
      position: fixed;
   }

   body {
      overflow: auto;
      height: 100%;
      position: relative;
  }

At least for me it covers most of the cases.