remove grey background on link clicked in ios safari / chrome / firefox
Webkit has a specific style property for that: -webkit-tap-highlight-color.
Copied from: http://davidwalsh.name/mobile-highlight-color—
/* light blue at 80% opacity */html { -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(201, 224, 253, 0.8);}/* change it for a div that has a similar background-color to the light blue tap color */.blueDiv { -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(251, 185, 250, 0.9);}If you want to remove the highlight completely—
.myButton { -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);}
Latest versions of iOS are ignoring RGBA colors for some reason.
To remove it, I ended up having to use the following:
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;As documented here:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-tap-highlight-color