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Preventing iOS Safari scrolling when focusing on input elements
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When an input element gets focused, iOS Safari tries to put it in the center by scrolling (and zooming.)
Zooming can be easily disabled using a meta tag, but the scrolling hasn't been quite easy.
The main quirk (I think) is that iOS Safari changes viewport when scrolling; i.e., toolbars shrink.
Since the viewport _should_ change, it thinks the input _will_ move, so it _should_ scroll, always.
Even times when it doesn't need to scroll—the input is fixed, all we need is the keyboard—
the window always scrolls _up and down_ resulting in some janky animation.
However, iOS Safari doesn't scroll when the input **has opacity of 0 or is completely clipped.**
We can make use of this behavior. There are two possible workarounds, as shown below.
An upside to this approach beside being simple is that sniffing the User Agent string
to recognize iOS Safari might be no longer needed.
See it in action:
Before: https://twitter.com/kid1ng/status/1356167756622643200
After: https://twitter.com/kid1ng/status/1356166043169738762
https://twitter.com/kid1ng/status/1356176495991906305
See also:
Adobe's react-aria solves this problem in an incredibly spectacular way.
For more context and details, do take a look at the code and the comments at:
https://github.com/adobe/react-spectrum/blob/main/packages/@react-aria/overlays/src/usePreventScroll.ts
https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1310652121063198720
https://twitter.com/jordwalke/status/1355681285717385217
-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
<style>
#modal {
position: fixed;
background: gray;
top: 2em;
right: 2em;
left: 2em;
height: 10em;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
#methodTwoWrapper {
position: relative;
}
</style>
<body>
<section>
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</section>
<section id="modal">
<input placeholder="No workaround">
<input placeholder="Method 1" id="methodOne">
<div id="methodTwoWrapper">
<input placeholder="Method 2" id="methodTwo">
</div>
</section>
<script>
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
setTimeout(() => window.scrollTo(0, 100));
/*
* Method 1: Briefly change the opacity.
* Element might "blink" on focus in some scenarios.
*/
methodOne.addEventListener("focus", () => {
methodOne.style.opacity = 0;
setTimeout(() => methodOne.style.opacity = 1);
});
/*
* Method 2: Stack a cloned input element on top.
* Requires a relatively-positioned wrapper div.
* Might not be applicable to some scenarios.
*/
methodTwo.addEventListener("focus", () => {
const cloneTwo = methodTwo.cloneNode();
cloneTwo.removeAttribute("id");
cloneTwo.style.position = "absolute";
cloneTwo.style.top = 0;
cloneTwo.style.left = 0;
cloneTwo.style.opacity = 0;
methodTwoWrapper.append(cloneTwo);
cloneTwo.focus();
setTimeout(() => {
cloneTwo.style.opacity = 1;
methodTwo.style.opacity = 0;
methodTwo.disabled = true;
});
cloneTwo.addEventListener("blur", () => {
methodTwo.value = cloneTwo.value;
methodTwo.disabled = false;
methodTwo.style.opacity = 1;
cloneTwo.style.opacity = 0;
setTimeout(() => cloneTwo.remove());
});
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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How can I use this in react?

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