jQuery style not being applied in Safari

14
votes

I have an absolutely positioned element that I move with the help of jQuery using the CSS propertly 'left'.

$("#element").css('left', '103px');

In Firefox this works as expected. However in Safari I can see the style appearing in the Web Inspector under element.style, but the style isn't updated. If I disable (and re-enable) any matched CSS-rules (even those not applied directly to my div) the style being applied with jQuery is rendered.

I'm running Safari 5.0.6 on an old PowerMac, with jQuery 1.7.2.

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How about adding a class with left:103px; to you CSS and doing $('emelent').addClass('left_class'); ? Will that make a differance? – Robert
If it is in the CSS it works, but I want to be able to move the element around with jQuery, but it doesn't work. – D A
I've traced the problem to a parent element to this one which is absolutely positioned. If I set it to relative positioning it will render the jQuery applied style. – D A
Can you post a working web page demonstrating the problem? – RoToRa

5 Answers

13
votes

I faced this problem once and i end up using addClass and removeClass on elements parent container.

try this

$("#element").css('left', '103px').parent().addClass("dummyClass").removeClass("dummyClass");

if that doesn't work follwoing will work for sure.

$("#element").css('left', '103px');
$("body").addClass("dummyClass").removeClass("dummyClass");

the problem is sometime safari doesn't redraw the page when we change CSS so we need to force redrawing

0
votes

!important should do the trick

$("#element").css('left', '103px !important');
0
votes

I had a similar problem implementing a video progress bar. The element I wanted to position let was inside a DIV with 'display:table-caption;' After reading @gaurang171 comment on td elements, I ended up having to remove that element from the div table and setting 'display:block;' and the element position updated without the need for the dummyClass. A div with display:block inside the table-caption did not work, it had to be outside of the table altogether.

0
votes

Safari seems to have problem with repainting elements. Fortunately we can force repaint by adding transform: translateZ(0); to css class. This seems to be fixed on BigSur, but happens on Safari Catalina.

-1
votes

Well it works for me in safari 5.1.7

In my experience when .css() fails I try with .animate() with 0 as time (instant)

Try something like this and make me know if it worked (Tested in safari 5.1.7 and worked)

        $(document).ready(function(){
           $("#element").animate({
               left: '+=103px'
           }, 0);
        });