I am fresh new to CSS in general and responsive design specially,
I had an old website which i successfully redesigned with CSS and everything is fine, when trying to make it responsive i just discovered media queries and i started with restyling the footer using :
#media screen and (max-width:720px){ etc ...}
That works ok and my footer is restyling well, my question is :
This looks fine in my mobile which is 720px width, but in the case of a mobile with for example 1080px width it will show the desktop version ? how to avoid that ?
I mean if i try with :
#media screen and (max-width:1280px){ etc ...}
To include high resolution mobiles, it will show the mobile version on desktop screen that are 1280px width ?
What is the correct usage, ? Thanks
Don’t worry about a device being mobile or desktop or whatever.
Media queries allow you to apply difference style sheets based on the window size.
If you have a media query for devices that are 720px wide or less and the design in that CSS works for screens that wide and another media query for devices that are wider that that, and the design works for devices that size, then everything is fine.
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I'm developing an Android app using Cordova in which there are multiple font-icons used. I used media queries for different screen sizes to set the font-size for the "body" by percent. I also added queries based on orientation to try and make it responsive for orientation-change. But still the icons look oddly smaller or larger for different screens as there can be tablets as well as mid-sized phones that can have the same resolution. So my question is, is there a better way to make my font-icons responsive regardless of the screen size, DPI, resolution? I'm using Fontello font-icons.
My phone (LG G2) has a viewport size of 360px 598px.
Col-xs aims devices smaller than 768px, so that means that wether the user is in portrait or landscape mode, he will have the same result, even though in landscape mode i could display more elements due to its larger width. That's why i wonder why the smallest media query is 768px in bootstrap, which doesn't take into account phone's portrait/landscape view.
Thank you for any clarification.
Although the LG G2 "could" display more information in landscape, thats not what resposive webdesign intended.
Bootstrap (and others respectively) did choose those breakpoints to create widespread groups of screen sizes/devices.
They decided to use the iPads width in portrait (768px) as their breakpoint between typical phones and tablets, which makes perfectly sense regarding the amount of work to do. Responsive webdesign is all about creating those groups of devices, to not have to code hundreds of versions for thousends of device types, and still be able to create an optimised view for most devices.
Of course you can still use customised versions, but the more viewport groups you create, the more adjusting and testing will be necessary (and soon enough you're back to useragent sniffing times)
so, I want to do a "mobile" friend view of my site. Its liquid designed already, but mobiles need definitely different look. Now, how to detect if I visited it with mobile (iphone, ipad, android)? More specifically, I imagine it as if the screen width is smaller than a value (dunno that value), then thats considered a mobile client. How to detect, so that generate the mobile optimized CSS/HTML outputs? Maybe im too simple, but to me mobile client = smaller screen, and nothing more
There isn't really a great way. Before you used to be able to say if under a certain number of pixels then it is a phone. But now phones are getting both higher pixel count but also crucially large screens too. Tablets are as small as 7" now, but they could get smaller. Some phones are over 5" and could get bigger. Then there are things like physical pixels to css pixel ratios to think about.
If not screen size or pixel count, maybe it could be if it supports touch or not. But Windows 8 threw that on its head, as that supports touch on the desktop.
I would say it depends on the content rather than the device. Test your site using various widths. See when the width becomes sub-optimal for the content, and throw in a media query there to adapt the layout. I think a content first rather than device first strategy is more future proof.
Also remember that it may not just be a mobile that wants your mobile friendly layout. For example soemone could be using their browser in a small window, rather than full screen, or they could be using the snap mode in Windows 8, where the width is the same as a iPhone width at 320px.
Use media queries. Then you can detect if you are on a mobile device the browser will load the mobile CSS and if you are on a PC the browser will load the PC version of the CSS.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
Then you can develop the mobile device CSS like this way (supose the mobile have 480x640 pixels):
#media screen and (max-device-width:480px){
...
put your mobile device CSS code here
...
}
Supose you want develop CSS for tablets (1.024x768pixels)
#media screen and (max-device-width:1024px) and (orientation:portrait){
...
put your tablet device CSS code here when tablet has portrait orientation.
...
}
#media screen and (max-device-width:1024px) and (orientation:landscape){
...
put your tablet device CSS code here when tablet has landscape orientation.
...
}
And for PCs (1280x968pixels):
#media screen and (max-device-width:1280px){
...
put your PC CSS code here
...
}
I have being tearing my hair out trying to get a fix for this, the site is built with Twitter Bootstrap and is responsive, and works fine on all devices apart from iPad & iPad mini in portrait where it is always wider that the devices screen.
I know that there is a problem on device rotation with iOS devices, but this is on page load in portrait.
Any advice would be great, I am not sure if it is a problem with Bootstrap or something I have done.
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you may need to make a new set of responsive CSS to fit that screen size.
EG you have something like this #media (max-width: 979px) & #media (min-width: 1200px). You might need to add another one in between to handle the size of the iPad on portrait.
I'm not sure if the problem is related specifically to iPads. Something odd is happening with your grid at a viewport of 769px - 945px (approx). It's not responding correctly.
If you check validation results for the page there are a number of errors which aren't too important but at the end there are two I would fix, an unclosed container div and a body tag that was already closed. http://bit.ly/11fKdhG
While these 2 errors aren't necessarily the cause of the problem, I think you want fix them first.
Hope this helps!
I'm designing a Website for Desktop and iPad. The same website will be used for iPad and Desktop PCs.
Site's design width is 1024px and in iPad Portrait mode it will be 768px. My questions is what things I should consider while making Design and writing CSS so writing specific css for Portrait mode should not be needed
I want to make flexible layout for both orientation without using media queries.
You are going to have to use relative width's for everything - think percentages and em's.
Without media queries, it's going to be impossible to serve up different layouts for orientations - however if your design and code is flexible (using relative widths), your design will expand and contract based on the available screen width.
The biggest design concern, in my opinion, would be what the site looks like at 768px wide vs 1024px wide; are the line lengths too long? How will images stretch/contract? Will a font size at 768px be legible at 1024?
The font size will adjust automatically based on the em you set it to, which is a nice thing so you won't have to worry about it.