Android does not correctly scroll on input focus if not body element

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When a mobile browser brings up a keyboard it tries to move the scrollbars so that the input is still in view.

On iOS Safari it seems to do this properly by finding the nearest scrolling parent.

On Android native or Chrome mobile browser it seems to just try the body element and then gives up, so the focused input is hidden beneath the keyboard.

 How to break it

Set overflow-y: hidden on the body element. Create a scrollable container and put a form in there.

When you select an element near the bottom of your screen it will be obscured by the keyboard.

Demo

http://dominictobias.com/android-scroll-bug/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"/>
    <title>Android scroll/focus bug</title>
    <style>
    html, body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        height: 100%;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    .scroll {
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        overflow-y: scroll;
    }
    input {
        margin-bottom: 20px;
        width: 100%;
    }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

    <div class="scroll">
        <input type="text" value="Input 1">
        <input type="text" value="Input 2">
        <input type="text" value="Input 3">
        <input type="text" value="Input 4">
        <input type="text" value="Input 5">
        <input type="text" value="Input 6">
        <input type="text" value="Input 7">
        <input type="text" value="Input 8">
        <input type="text" value="Input 9">
        <input type="text" value="Input 10">
        <input type="text" value="Input 11">
        <input type="text" value="Input 12">
        <input type="text" value="Input 13">
        <input type="text" value="Input 14">
        <input type="text" value="Input 15">
        <input type="text" value="Input 16">
        <input type="text" value="Input 17">
        <input type="text" value="Input 18">
        <input type="text" value="Input 19">
        <input type="text" value="Input 20">
    </div>

</body>
</html>

Any ideas how to fix this? Will it require some browser detection and messy hacks?

Best Answer

This is a bug in the Android native browser. By the way, the input scrolls into the view after a character is typed on the soft keyboard.

The following code snippet placed somewhere in the page should help:

if(/Android 4\.[0-3]/.test(navigator.appVersion)){
   window.addEventListener("resize", function(){
      if(document.activeElement.tagName=="INPUT"){
         window.setTimeout(function(){
            document.activeElement.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
         },0);
      }
   })
}
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