Windows Phone 7 Browser - Turn off the gray shading when links are clicked

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With the Windows Phone 7 Browser, when the user clicks a link, it is shaded with a gray rectangle for approximately 0.5 seconds. This is fine in generally, however, if you have dynamic page behaviour, for example, clicking a link updates the DOM so that the link is no longer visible, the opaque gray rectangle lingers on the screen after the link itself has gone.

This looks pretty horrible!

Does anyone know how to disable this effect?

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4 Answers

The following solution seems to work (at least on the emulator). The gray shading needs the dimensions of the clicked element. If the element has zero width then there is no shading, while clicking the child elements still fires the element's click handler.

<div id="myLink" style="float:left">
   <img src="images/myLinkIcon.png" style="position:absolute" />
   <span style="position:absolute;left:50px">Click here</span>
</div>

<script>
    // jQuery
    $(function () {
        $("#myLink").click(function () {
            console.log("clicked on myLink");
        });
    });
</script>

The div can either float or be absolutely positioned. The child elements have to be absolutely positioned, otherwise the div acquires a width.

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