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Preventing elastic scrolling on iDevice

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If you a flick a web app past the bottom or top of the page, the page itself gets elastically tugged away from the URL bar or the button bar (or the bottom/top of the screen if it's in full-screen mode).

This behavior is another giveaway that your app isn't native, and it's rarely the behavior you want in a native app.

To stop this behavior, capture touchmove events on the document in JavaScript and cancel them. You can do this by adding a handler to the body tag, and invoking the preventDefault method on the event object:

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Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. <script>
  2.  function BlockMove(event) {
  3.   // Tell Safari not to move the window.
  4.   event.preventDefault() ;
  5.  }
  6. </script>
  7.  
  8. <body ontouchmove="BlockMove(event);" >
  9.   ...
  10. </body>

URL: http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-native-iphone-ipad-apps-in-javascript/

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