Mobile web kit browsers do not allow you to scroll content inside a fixed size container or a div element. If you are a mobile web developer developing apps for iPhone and Android, you must have faced this problem before. If you use overflow:auto or overflow:scroll and expect to scroll the overflown content then you would rather see your entire web page being scrolled vertically. This happens because it is the default behavior of DOM touch events to scroll the page.
Just to overcome this problem I recently came across a javascript library iScroll which allows native way of scrolling content inside a fixed width/height element for mobile web kit browsers. So using iScroll you can have a fixed header/footer with position:absolute and a scrolling central content area.
iScroll uses hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions and transformations to scroll the content and it behaves exactly like the native way of scrolling in iPhone apps. iScroll is very easy to use – download the iscroll javascript library (which is available for download in the home page) and call it in your html page. Then set up your HTML and CSS and you are good to go. Latest version of iScroll at the time of writing this post was iScroll4, so you can download the library and use that. iScroll4 also supports a whole lot of other features like pinch-to-zoom, pull-to-refresh e.t.c to make mobile web development easier. I will not go into the details of iScroll as the site has all the necessary information and is very well documented. I believe you will find everything there to get you started in 5 mins.
