Ipad sees invisible boxes? Can I fix this?

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AncientCityPhoto
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http://herringtononthebay.com/virtual_t ... l-tour.php

If you visit this tour I made with the ipad or galaxy tablets, you will see a photo button to click in the first panorama. (and others) On the tablets the center of the screen does not work. I have picture boxes in the skin that appear when clicked on. However, these are the bottom layers. (All the way at the top of the list) They are invisible until clicked on. On the ipad, they still deactivate the middle of the screen. You cannot begin a scroll or press a button if you are in the center of the screen. Only from the side and top and bottom 1/3 or the screen does it work.

Is there any way to work around this and have it function normally? HTML desktop browsers work fine. The iphone version opens images to a new window since the screen is so small. Is there any way to get the tablets to function in the middle with the invisible boxes?
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Hi,
You say invisible boxes, it is know that containers are active in HTML5, but when hidden or scaled to 0/0 they should be ok.
How are you setting the picture viewer up?
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AncientCityPhoto
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The elements are hidden. Its a container with the external image box, and a background for the image. The elements are hidden until the button is pressed. Then they appear. This works fine on HTML5 desktop browsers. This only appears to be an issue with tablets reading the HTML5.
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Can you send your skin?
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AncientCityPhoto
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Sent!
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Hopki
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Hi,
As said containers are active elements and will prevent interaction with the panorama.
Looking through your skin I see a large container which is visible and alpha 1, but you have hidden the child elements so the container is still there.

Example:
In your skin you have element: Peek Pavilion Box
This is a container that is visible and alpha 1.
The child elements are: Peek pavillion which is an external loader, this has its visibility unseated along with a text box.

You need the containers visibility unselected also then it will not be active.
All containers need to be moved off stage or not visible.
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AncientCityPhoto
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I got it now! Thanks so much! That concept never fully sunk in for me til now!
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