iPad css3 animation flickers after keyboard use - javascript

I'm developing an app for the iPad using HTML5/CSS3. I'm not using any framework and am just using whatever is natively supported on the device. I have created some css3 animations to emulate the typical iOS sliding left or sliding right when navigating between screens. Here's an example of the slide left animation which is taking advantage of the iPad's CSS3 hardware acceleration: (the ipad is running 4.2).
/*************************************************
Slide Left
*************************************************/
.screen.slideleft{
-webkit-animation-duration: 0.5s;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
}
.screen.slideleft.outgoing{
z-index: 50 !important;
-webkit-animation-name: slideleft-outgoing;
}
.screen.slideleft.incoming{
z-index: 100 !important;
-webkit-animation-name: slideleft-incoming;
}
#-webkit-keyframes slideleft-outgoing{
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0%,0,0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0); }
}
#-webkit-keyframes slideleft-incoming{
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%,0,0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0%,0,0); }
}
I also have this CSS which I've attempted to use to fix the flicker:
.incoming,
.outgoing{
display: block !important;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
}
This works great until the iPad keyboard is used. After which point all the animations flicker severely.
I've been looking for examples of an iPad HTML5 app that uses the keyboard and doesn't have flickers afterwards, but haven't turned up much. The jqTouch demos exhibit the same behavior on the iPad (although I know they were designed for the iPhone).
I've turned up a few posts/questions of similar questions but have never found a good answer. I've been through http://css3animator.com/2010/12/fight-the-flicker-making-your-css3-animation-bomb-proof/ and the articles linked there but haven't had any success.
Any other suggestions?
Update 1/13 # 9am
I've added this css and it helped a lot:
.incoming *,
.outgoing *{
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); /* This helps with the flicker a lot. */
}
The foreground elements don't seem to flicker anymore, but the backgrounds still do. Still looking for some help or helpful resources on Mobile Safari's memory handling tactics.
Update 1/16 # 11pm
Increasing the z-index as suggested by anonymous. Didn't seem to make a difference.
Update 1/17 # 8:30am
I've posted a demo of the problem here.
The transitions between screens work great...until you tap/click inside one of the form fields. After the keyboard slides up and returns, all the transitions flicker. Go to the URL inside the iOS simulator or on an actual iPad to see what I'm talking about.

This is an old question, but I thought I'd share my experience.
I've been having issues with outrageous flickering (on css3 animations) on the iPad (as well as the iPhone, but in that case only in portrait view). I was able to completely resolve all of the flickering issues by setting :
-webkit-perspective: 0;
On the elements being animated. I'm not sure why this works, but it does (tested on iOS 4.2+, both iPad (1 and 2) and iPhone 4).
Update: I've just become aware of an issue with Chrome when setting the value of that attribute to 1. It works just fine when it's 0, so I've updated the above appropriately.

Looking at your source, the translate3d(0,0,0) isn't applied until the transition starts?
Try
.screen{
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}
or
.screen *, .screen{
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}
The flicker is probably the hardware acceleration kicking in (it currently only works on 3d translated elements).

I had the same issue, but i was able to reduce the flicker to almost unnoticeable by applying the fix described here and here:
http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/issues/detail?id=301
https://github.com/senchalabs/jQTouch/issues/issue/130
Basically set the z-index of the page you a are moving out to -1 and after the transistion back to 1

I know this is a dinosaur old question, but there is a solution for this issue and it is quite lightweight and very simple.
document.getElementById('clicked_input').addEventListener('focus', function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
},false);
When i was tackling this issue too, I thought I tried everything - eventually the only thing that helped, was to create a modal window (position: absolute) outside of the app's container div, and also set the app's container div to display:false; when the keyboard was coming up. While it worked it was ugly, I tested everything to see what caused the event and it seemed that when the 'focus event' bubbled up, every 3d transform gets messed up (in flickering and performance).
Preventing the event of bubbling solved this issue completely - quite mind boggling that such a hated bug had such a simple solution?

You're not going to like me saying this, but JavaScript may be the answer you're looking for. I fear that when you bring the keyboard up, the process of rendering the HTML loses priority. With a continually updating script, like a setInterval loop, the iPad will have no choice but to render as planned. Explicit code requires no hacks.

I agree with Ben, you should probably set transforms on the classes themselves as well:
/*************************************************
Slide Left
*************************************************/
.screen.slideleft{
-webkit-animation-duration: 0.5s;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}
.screen.slideleft.outgoing{
z-index: 50 !important;
-webkit-animation-name: slideleft-outgoing;
-webkit-transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0);
}
.screen.slideleft.incoming{
z-index: 100 !important;
-webkit-animation-name: slideleft-incoming;
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}
#-webkit-keyframes slideleft-outgoing{
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(-100%,0,0); }
}
#-webkit-keyframes slideleft-incoming{
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%,0,0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); }
}
If that doesn't work, I'd be curious to test if only translating the X with translateX(-100%) fixes the problem. (Not necessarily a fix, because you don't have hardware acceleration without 3D transforms, but would help narrow down the problem.)

Ultimately, there really wasn't a fix for this issue. It seems like form elements in WebKit on the iPad cause problems with flickering.
My workaround was that on the onblur of each form element, I refreshed the page using hash tags to ensure it refreshed to the exact same state. It still caused a "flicker" while it was refreshing, but it did keep the screen from flickering throughout the rest of the app.

I've recently been having the same problem and tried all sorts of complicated fixes. In the end I found the issue was down to the default styling on the input. I fixed my problem by adding the css input{outline:none}. It's prob just on the focus state so input:focus{outline:none;} should work.

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Using -webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0); will kick the GPU into action for the CSS transitions, making them smoother (higher FPS).
Note: translate3d(0,0,0) does nothing in terms of what you see. it moves the object by 0px in x,y and z axis. It's only a technique to force the hardware acceleration.
#element {
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 0;
z-index: 9994;
...other stuff and then
/* MAGIC HAPPENS HERE */
transform: translateZ(0);
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
}
We can remove grey flicker on IE9, IE10, IE11, MEdge<=20 by setting overflow of html and body like
html{
overflow: hidden;
height: 100%;
}
body{
overflow: auto;
height: 100%;
}
Apparently the "bug" only affects IE11 on Windows 8.1, or maybe 8.0 too. Removing background-attachmend:fixed worked for me. Apparently that rule was redundant, since the background image displays correctly in every browser without that rule. A second solution is to disable Smooth Scrolling in the IE settings, but that's not optimal since it's enabled in a default installation.
Flickering CSS:
#element_id{
position:fixed;
height:100%;
left:0;
bottom:0;
right:0;
background-image:url('path/to/jpg');
-webkit-background-size:cover;
-moz-background-size:cover;
-o-background-size:cover;
background-size:cover;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
...and new code (1 line removed):
#element_id{
position:fixed;
height:100%;
left:0;
bottom:0;
right:0;
background-image:url('path/to/jpg');
-webkit-background-size:cover;
-moz-background-size:cover;
-o-background-size:cover;
background-size:cover;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
A hardware acceleration technique as follow caused mine.
outline: 1px solid transparent;
Remove it and it might be the cause.
Another reason for flickering can obviously be another fixed element inside the fixed element. At least that was the reason in my case. The false behaviour of Edge appears to be random.
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My Website's body was set to position: relative.
Removing that did the trick for my IE-exclusive flickering/jumping problem.

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http://jsfiddle.net/zrr2b/
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Here in this branch you can see me set a bunch of styles that help with "regular flickering" but have no effect for me. http://jsfiddle.net/zrr2b/1/
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Updates:
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Safari Version 6.0.2 (7536.26.17) on Lion 10.7.5 (Macbook Air Mid 2011) does not suffer from this bug
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But they center around the same few things:
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0); /* triggers GPU, sometimes fixes the issue */
transform: translateZ(0); /* non-webkit specific */
If this doesn't quite do the trick, try:
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
backface-visibility: hidden;
-webkit-perspective: 1000;
perspective: 1000;
If this also fails, try this:
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
You can read about each one of them through the W3C. But they have all worked for me on different circumstances with not fluid animations, and flickering ones, including some very odd ones, a lot jumpier than your fiddle.
They would go in the div being animated.

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0% {-webkit-transform:rotate(12deg);}
50% {-webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg);}
100% {-webkit-transform:rotate(12deg);}
}
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-webkit-animation-name: wiggle;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
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.p4 {
-webkit-animation-duration: 5s;
}
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-webkit-animation-duration: 7s;
}
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-webkit-animation-duration: 8s;
}
And so on...
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I would like to know whether there is a faster way to achieve this. Or a leaner way. I believe I could perform this with JS but I'm not sure what is going to be more lightweight on the end users resources.
Is there a better way to achieve this sort of basic animation with less resources - and if so, how?
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Replacing the CSS3 with JS is not really leaner or less resource intensive, quite the opposite as CSS3 seems to have smoother animations and in some browsers will use hardware accelaration and the GPU, something not possible with JS (at least not easily).
All in all you'll end up writing more in JS, and perhaps use a library or plugin for rotating animations as well. It will be less smooth in most browsers, and use more resources as well as JS will have to set the css tranform values several times each second for a somewhat smooth animation.

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Just include some CSS and toggle the class.
.app{
width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;
-webkit-transform: scale(.0);
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
-webkit-transition-duration: 500ms;
}
.app.opened{
-webkit-transform: scale(1);
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/z4bP7/
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