#7234 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened April 09, 2011 10:00PM UTC

Closed May 17, 2011 03:50PM UTC

iPad Safari truncates tab content on lengthy documents

Reported by: tr888 Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.9.0
Component: ui.tabs Version: 1.8.11
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

My website uses jQuery UI Tabs to organize some fairly large documents (e.g. 75K) into sections, each of which has a corresponding tab. The pages work fine EVERYWHERE (Opera, Chrome, FF, IE, Safari for Windows, Safari for Mac) but not on iPad Safari, where the tab-content is getting truncated. The pages validate as 4.01 Strict.

I have a jsFiddle project demonstrating the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/Ybmk9/8/

The [Glossary] tab's contents should go all the way down to the letter -Y- but it cuts off in the letter -H- on the iPad.

It is as though iPad Safari is "remembering" the tab pane height from a "shorter" DIV and applying that height to the DIV that is being made visible, even if the DIV-to-be-made-visible is lengthier than the previous one and should have greater height.

Here is my actual website: www.aimsdata.com/tim/anhaga/edition.htm

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Change History (5)

Changed April 09, 2011 10:01PM UTC by tr888 comment:1

Version tested on jsFiddle is 1.8.9 -- don't see how to edit the version here, which reads 1.8.11. Sorry

Changed April 10, 2011 01:47PM UTC by tr888 comment:2

This means my site is pretty much useless on iPad, a platform I'd really like to target; my site is text-centric and scholastic/academic oriented. So I'd like to consider this worse than a "minor" bug but I don't see how to change the priority to "major". I don't understand the bug-reporting interface; for example, why is there a radio-button (*) "leave as new" under Modify Ticket? Aren't single-choice options usually represented by a check-box, with radio-buttons being reserved for multiple mutually exclusive options?

Changed May 01, 2011 07:57PM UTC by tr888 comment:3

I tested today at the Apple store on the iPad2 and the page works fine. This isn't to say that it might not stop working on the iPad2 at some point, if, say, it were a caching issue. But I believe this isn't a jQuery bug but an Apple issue.

Changed May 06, 2011 07:46PM UTC by etiger13 comment:4

I tried this on my ipad and it only shows in the example window. If you use http://jsfiddle.net/Ybmk9/8/show/ it works fine.

Changed May 17, 2011 03:50PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:5

resolution: → wontfix
status: new → closed

Closing as it sounds like all the research is showing that this is a limitation that only occurs in iframes that can't be worked around and is fixed in newer versions.