Jerod Santo

Safari does not trigger click events on anchors or buttons containing SVG elements

This fact will ruin your day if, for instance, you are expecting Rails’ jQuery UJS to Just Work when you add a remote: true or method: :post to that link_to helper. You know, something like this:

It’ll work in Chrome. It’ll work in Firefox. But Safari on the other hand…

Safari will not trigger a click event and whatever JavaScript you were expecting to fire will not. How to fix? In your CSS:

svg {
  pointer-events: none;
}

This took me way too long to diagnose. Hopefully this post saves you some time/money!