Trigger a mouseover event on the iPhone/iPod Touch

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Thu, Feb 21 2008 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: Anonymous

I just found this out by accident on my iPod touch. And I haven't seen this as a hint before. It's actually possible to trigger a mouseover event in the Safari browser on an iPhone or iPod touch. You just have to click and hold the link that has the mouseover effect. At first, you get a popup with the link or description. If you then release your finger, however, the mouseover effect is triggered!

It doesn't seem to work in every case, but it can be useful sometimes. For example, on websites that make use of a drop-down menu, or that give extra information in pop-ups on mouseover.

I don't know if this is new in the 1.1.3 firmware, but it's a nice detail.

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Trigger a mouseover event on the iPhone/iPod Touch
Authored by: dipsomaniac on Thu, Feb 21 2008 at 10:06AM PST

I never realized this might not be known or I would have submitted this as a hint a long time ago. It's definitely not new in 1.1.3.

Works on 1.02
Authored by: kaylo on Sun, Feb 24 2008 at 11:17AM PST

Works for me in firmware 1.0.2 (though I often end up following the link, as well, which I'm not fond of. Try mousing-over a cardname at essentialmagic.com, for instance)

Doesn't work in OS 3.0 ?
Authored by: henryaz on Thu, Jun 25 2009 at 1:43PM PDT

In one test I ran, it doesn't seem to work in my ipod touch, OS 3.0. The panel comes up (open, open in new page, copy, cancel), but the pop-up menu triggered by the rollover does not get a chance to engage.

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