Issue 181560 in chromium: Allow disable auto zoom when input focus

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Comment #1 on issue 181560 by ***@toremote.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

Chrome is the only one who has this feature in all mobile browsers. It's
better to have a way to disable it, like chrome prefix CSS.
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Comment #3 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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This feature is just awful. Especially when chrome gets confused and zooms
in on the wrong area so I can no longer see the text box I want to edit.
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Comment #5 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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This is a big problem for me when creating a mobile html 5 web app
everything gets screwed up.. the problem is that all elements with in the
screen is touch elements and reacts to pinch etc so the user can not zoom
out again once zoomed in.
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Comment #7 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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Its very annoying in webchats where zooming in can totally explode the
layout to be unusable until you zoom out again. Option to disable would be
great.
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Comment #9 on issue 181560 by ***@toremote.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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Considering you can pinch zoom, users really don't need this. Please check
how this is annoying users and developers:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/CgyLs1dW580
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7073396/disable-zoom-on-input-focus-in-android-webpage
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Comment #10 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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It's very annoying when I work on my tablet, I'd be very happy if I can
just turn auto-zoom off.
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Updates:
Cc: ***@chromium.org ***@chromium.org
Labels: -Area-UI Cr-UI-Input-Text-IME

Comment #11 on issue 181560 by ***@samsung.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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Comment #14 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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I agree with #13, I mostly find this behavior problematic on desktop sites.
I would just rather zoom in myself if it's necessary, but it's usually not.
I am almost always forced to zoom back out manually anyway after selecting
a text field due to this behavior.
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Comment #15 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
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#12: I haven't really noticed it zooming in on mobile sites. When it does,
we can consider that a bug, but I don't think a modal ban is the right
approach. I'd rather continuing tuning the policy so that it doesn't
trigger when inappropriate. Note also that the same code deals with
animating the scroll position around when the on-screen-keyboard would
cover the form field. That behavior definitely desirable to preserve even
on mobile sites.

#13: We generally try to avoid adding settings in Chrome; we'd rather tune
this so it's less annoying for all users, not just the ones who discover
the setting. We already made a few improvements to make this trigger less
frequently since the bug was originally filed; we might benefit from
loosening it further to tolerate further zoom levels.
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Comment #16 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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Before I updated I didn't have this auto-zoom headache. Now I do. I can't
say if it is a recently released update or if I simply had not updated
recently ("if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). Either way I have it now and
I find it really annoying. I use an input field 70-80 times a day so this
is continually "in my face". Although I can see where this could be
beneficial I have no such use cases.
I'm not sure there is a programmatic way to resolve this to everyone's
liking given the age of the issue. I'm sure you've worked on it. So just
provide a setting to switch this off/on.
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Comment #17 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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In response to #15 reply #13 (by ***@chromium.org): "We already made a
few improvements to make this trigger less frequently"

This implies that there's a way we can make sites that don't 'trigger' the
zooming. Is there anywhere where the triggers are specified so we can try
to work out a way of programatically preventing it happening?
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Comment #18 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
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For your website, you can set "user-scalable=no" in your meta viewport tag,
which will disable zooming in general including this. There's no mechanism
for web developers to affect textbox zoom behavior more explicitly.
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Comment #19 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

I tried this meta tag, but it doesn't prevent zooming:

<meta name="viewport"
content="initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,width=device-width,height=device-height,target-densitydpi=device-dpi,user-scalable=no"
/>

Did I do it wrong, or has support been removed from Android Chrome
38.0.2125.114?
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Comment #20 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
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It should prevent zooming unless the preference "force enable zoom" is
checked in settings -> accessibility.
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Comment #21 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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"user-scalable=no" is a non-solution. Some projects require that the user
be able to zoom.
One can not know beforehand the eyesight quality of the users.
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Comment #22 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
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@***@gmail.com I can't zoom when I'm in a "native" app? I want my web
app to feel like a "native" app. It should be *our* decision whether or not
to limit our audience, or on how to handle them. For example, I can add a
button at the top to increase or decrease font size, and take appropriate
layout measures depending on font size. I would extremely *love* to be
given the ability to decide precisely how I treat the customers of my app.
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Comment #23 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

I added the following to my web page, but it did not prevent the zoom.
Please fix this anoying behavior. It's really a deal killer for chrome.
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
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Comment #24 on issue 181560 by ***@toremote.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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This should work:

<meta name="viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1.0,
user-scalable=no" />

But that means your user can not zoom in/out your web page which is very
bad.

There is also another workaround for this issue but it is definitely not
ideal either: You can set the font size of every input as 2em or bigger.
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Comment #25 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
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That doesn't work in my Chrome. I'm in ANdroid Lollipop with whatever the
latest Chrome currently is. Chrome doesn't support disabling zoom with that
meta tag, and it's also not part of w3c spec so it's probably not reliable
to rely on it.

You *can* disable zoom by intercepting touch events and cancelling what
they do (e.g. returning false, or using event.preventDefault())

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/event.preventDefault

This won't cancel the automatic zoom triggered when you touch an input box.
What you could do though is file a new feature request so allow for an API
that let's us open up the keyboard without having to focus on an input
element. This would allow us to make custom input elements that don't won't
zoom the browser in automatically.

All in all, you awesome developers on this Chromium project should let us
make *apps*, not just web *pages*.
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Comment #26 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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Soooo stupid feature. Please add ability to disable this feature in Android
native browser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #29 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
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This is great news. Thank you!! It makes sense for mobile-optimized sites.
I'd still argue that we should be able to prevent zoom on full-size sites.
It'd be nice to have the option of turning away users because they can't
zoom in. It's not that I'd actually want that, but philosophically speaking
we should have such control and freedom, as do "native" developers.
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Comment #30 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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I agree with the comments above. I have a high resolution Android tablet
and find it very annoying to have a perfectly fine desktop website zoom in
on me automatically requiring me to constantly zoom back out while typing.
Just typing this post in fact I had to zoom back out every time I moved the
mouse cursor. Please allow me too fully disable this very annoying feature.
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Comment #31 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
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I would say that when that autozoom when typing happens, that's ironically
ruining accessibility, making it harder for people to use the web app/page.
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Comment #32 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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This is the one single reason I am now looking at alternatves to chrome.
Big mistake google.
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Updates:
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Comment #35 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
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Rick, what if we allowed disabling of text autozoom with touch-action?
Perhaps touch-action:manipulation or a subset thereof?
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Comment #37 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
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#15/#28 - if you want to make it less annoying without adding the option so
users can do that themselves (since not everyone has the same preferences
in all cases), then please consider simply removing this functionality
entirely because the results are nearly always undesirable, and I would
rather not have it at all than have to be stuck with *only* what the
Chromium team thinks is good.

Unfortunately, software is rarely one size fits all. I hope someday you
guys realize that most people have different preferences and would actually
appreciate being able to configure Chrome accordingly, instead of having
their preferences (incorrectly in many cases) dictated to them simply
because you are averse to adding options.
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Comment #38 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

Just spent couple of hours finding a way how to disable this awful
autozoom. On big fullhd screen I really don't like Chrome zooming in
automatically anywhere. Not even when using small phone. I understand there
might be a few users with tiny low-res phones who for some reason likes
this feature, but it's not fair all the others should suffer because of
this. Adding a autozoom disabled checkbox is a must, please add it quickly.
Thank you for cooperation.
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Comment #40 on issue 181560 by ***@fagnermartins.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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I read all topics but didn't got the real problem regarding zooming in
desktop sites since they said it was fixed for mobile.

Does it "zoom in" on input focus and then do not "zoom out" when one closes
the keyboard? If that happens for desktop sites, then is it agreed to be a
bug? If not why?
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Comment #41 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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Did this make it into M41? I'm a dummy with releases, but my tablet appears
to be running M42, and I'm still reproducing this with the <meta
name="viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1.0,
user-scalable=no" /> meta tag. I should note, I'm reproducing on textareas
that are embedded in iframes, but no inputs.
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Comment #42 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
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#41: Which frame has the mobile-optimized viewport? The main frame or the
iframe?
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Comment #43 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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So now this is "fixed"... But what if I want to zoom and pan on an input
field? I liked the previous behaviour a lot and specifically build my
website around it and now it stops working.
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Comment #45 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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@TruSktr, the problem is that I target destops en mobile... and for mobile
chrome on android the keyboard pops up right over the input field. Whereas
for safari and all other browsers (even chrome on iPhone!), the page simple
slides up as to show the input field.

Easy to say I should fix my website, but the problem clearly lies in the
browser! No consistency whatsovever (also not between versions!), it seems
like it is made by a bunch of kids who fool around instead of some serieus
designers with a vision of how it should work.
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Comment #46 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
zoom when input focus
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I agree with @TruSktr that the new behaviour is much better..

@equin, about the problem you described.. on which the keyboard pops up on
top of the input field.. I think that would be a different bug by itself...
in my case, I could only reproduce it when I'm using through the "Add to
homescreen" feature... when using normally through the browser though.. it
does slides the page up like other browsers...
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Comment #47 on issue 181560 by ***@chromium.org: Allow disable auto zoom
when input focus
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

equinem1@, cnsam.alex@: There does appear to be an issue with fullscreen
web apps where the OSK isn't properly resizing the web content, which in
turn prevents the autofocus behavior from working properly. I've filed
issue 502273 to track.

equienm1@: If you're seeing such behavior outside of fullscreen web apps,
please file a bug or report the exact page and repro steps so that we can
track it down. Maybe we can find time to fix it in between all of
our "fooling around" :).
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Comment #49 on issue 181560 by TruSktr: Allow disable auto zoom when input
focus
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

For the keyboard blocking the content, instead of having the keyboard on
top of the webview, you can resize the webview so the bottom of the webview
is at the top of the keyboard. That makes it easy to get the keyboard
height natively to make the webview the correct size (don't know if it
already is, but that would be nice cordova/crosswalk behavior), then in
your web code you just simply center the input element in the window.
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Comment #50 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto
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https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=181560

remove the bug, please
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Comment #52 on issue 181560 by ***@gmail.com: Allow disable auto zoom
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That stupid zooming around without any purpose is still super annoying :(
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