Weird behaviour in Android browser when selecting fields - android

The Android Webkit browser (tested on 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0) seems to behave in weird ways when modal elements are put one above the other. In this example here
... I'm displaying a jQuery UI date picker with z-index 200, a gray overlay div spanning the whole document height and width with z-index 199 and behind all that is the regular form.
In the example above, I have clicked on the dropdown control for the year where it says 2011. Instead of selecting that dropdown, the focus went on the textarea element way below the gray overlay.
NOTE: This doesn't happen with a desktop Firefox browser, or with the iPhone Webkit browser.
Any idea what's wrong?? Or how to work around this issue? I want to avoid modifying the form (e.g. disabling all elements, while the overlay displays)...

It seems that this is actually a known issue in Android. It's supposed to be fixed, but I can't confirm that. In any case, starring this issue would be nice, thanks!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6721
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=26255

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While looking into the problem I've noticed that the borders also appear on Chrome on a desktop/laptop, but only at certain zoom levels:
100% zoom:
110% zoom:
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This is taken at 90% zoom.
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Edit:
Just tested this on IE, Firefox and Safari on a desktop. No borders there, no matter what the zoom level is.
Edit2:
Zooming to 500% (Chrome on a desktop) shows that some of the lines are blue, some are white and some are gray, according to the colour scheme of the website. They are also not equal in length and seem to change position when I scroll around the webpage (i.e: move a bit more to the left/right.)
This sounds similar to space/gaps between divs on website when viewed on iPhone/iPad ("On an iPad, when a website is viewed at a scale under 100%, some artefacts appear sometimes. One is particularly visible: a 1 pixel lines between divs, just like on your site, under the menu")
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Disable zooming (if you have designed for viewing at that particular size)
Have a 1px overlap on elements (e.g. margin: -1px)
The overlap fix has worked for me in the past, though this might be harder with a table-based layout.

Does android add extra active area around submit buttons?

Android seems be to be increasing the clickable area of a submit button on an HTML form I'm working on. It's as if there's about 25 pixels to the right of the submit button that are also tap-able. This is problematic because, in my design, to the right of the submit button is an <A> element with an event handler bound to it. Tapping the <A> often submits the form instead of firing the event handler. I'm doing most of my testing in Browerstack and some on real hardware. The problem exhibits in (virtual) devices with lower screen widths (e.g. 320px), and seems to be there in Android 2.3 and 4. The same pages in iPhone (4s, iOS6) and Blackberry (v7) don't exhibit the problem.
Here's a CodePen example, and a single file version of the same code for easier viewing on mobile
Has anyone else seen this? Is it a feature? A bug - either in Android or in my code?
have you tried applying a reset.css to it? It seems to be an android webkit issue.
Also, try to use 40px areas for tap buttons.
I recommend using the reset.css stylesheet provided by meyerweb.com. It removes (almost) all styling that browsers would apply, but you may find you need to rework a lot of css and put a lot of stuff in such as <h1> tags.
CSS Tools: Reset CSS

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I've just launched a new version of our site and I'm trying to iron out a few issues which I wasn't able to test before because I can't emulate an android phone on my localhost (I'm sure it's possible - time didn't allow the required reading)
Anyway, I tested on ie7-9, ff, opera, safari, chrome, everything you can think of an mostly everything is just fine apart from:
on android phone: I have a horizontal navigation bar between the header and the content, the last item on the menu has shifted to the next line. This could be just a pixel, but why! why! why! boohoo :(
Then on IE7, on any page which has lots of products (like this one: http://www.traditionalirishgifts.com/guinness-merchandise) the filter options and the paging navigation are meant to be on one line, like they are on every other browser.
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It depends on the screen resolution of the phone. If you tried it
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Android Shows Super Long Scrolling Web Page -- This is NOT Correct Behavior

Maybe there's some magic I don't know about with scrolling on Android?
I've got a website that works fine in IE7, IE8, IE9, FireFox, Chrome, AND Safari on desktop. It also works fine in Safari on iPhone.
However, one of my Android 2.3.7 friends informs me that he has Opera and the default browser on his Android. In both of those browsers, the scrollable view doesn't end at the bottom of the page. When you get to the very end where the dark grey footer ends, you can go right past it and see solid cream-colored background going on for miles of scrolling!!
I have NO IDEA what could cause this!
Can anyone throw me a bone here?
Here's the site for anyone who might have Android 2.3.7 or another version of Android to test. Like I said, happens in both default AND opera browsers.
http://wwwa1nbkclientsitecom.zippysites.com/
UPDATE: I removed the overflow-y property from the HTML style tag in the stylesheet. I had another Android 2.* user test it. Its still broken. And now my next guess is that this might be broken due to the fancy floating menu at the top. Early versions of Android only had partial support for position: fixed
I'll try disabling the position: fixed menu and get it tested again.
UPDATE 2: I got it tested. Its still broken. I'm presently installing Google's Android SDK for the Emulator functionality. It'll let me specify old versions of Android to test. If I narrow down the problem, I'll post the answer here. Until then, if anyone has an idea of what's going on, please post your idea!
It works fine for me in the latest version of Chrome on an Android 4.0.4 tablet.
However, I think the problem may lie with the other browsers' interpretation of overflow-y: scroll; on your <html> tag.
Try removing that property. You shouldn't need it on the <html> tag anyway.
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