I'm currently learning React and trying to build a simple website. Here it is on Codesandbox.
I want the site to be responsive, and I've added what I believe to be the necessary CSS and HTML, like #media screen and (max-width: 600px) and <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
The site displays as expected in the browser, tested on Chrome and Firefox.
My problem is that when I run the site on the development server with npm start it behaves nice and responsive on the phone. However when I run npm run build and then serve it from a web-server with URL and all, the phone just displays it as a zoomed out desktop site. I've tried this on an Android and an iPhone.
I've searched but can't find a similar problem.
I would greatly appreciate any help.
It turns out that the problem was that where I got my URL used a www-forwarder that wrapped my page in a frame. This ruined the responsiveness.
By changing the URL to a DNS service instead, the wrapper was removed and my site worked as expected.
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I'm trying to get my website to fit inside my phone screen. I have tried many variations of env(safe-area-inset-bottom) and constant(safe-area-inset-bottom) but both always return 0px (I've been using an app called Inspect to debug CSS on my iPhone 13).
Here's a link to the github repo. All code that relates to this issue should be in /src/app.tsx. Here is a link to the live site if you want to see the problem yourself.
UPDATE: I've been doing some testing and have found that in portrait mode, safe-area-inset-* is ALWAYS 0px, but in landscape mode it works as expected. Does this mean that safe-area-inset-* isn't the correct solution for ios 15 safari? Clearly the url bar obscures the 'safe area' in portrait mode...
I've made sure to add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" /> to my head tag but this has no effect. Could someone please explain how I can ensure that my site doesn't go past the bottom URL bar on ios 15 Safari? I've attached screenshots from my phone showing the problem:
I think I made it work using -webkit-fill-available the other day which respects safe area.
body {
min-height: -webkit-fill-available;
}
I'm currently trying to use CSS media queries to optimise my website for mobile view, and am using Google Chrome with an extension to resize the viewport on my desktop to adjust my content for mobile.
The problem I'm having is when i'm designing and changing on my laptop at the mobile phone resolution, everything works fine (see first picture) but when I actually load the website on my mobile, I'm not getting the same view as what I'm getting from the laptop (see second picture).
I've used
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
to set my width for mobile
I know the font is different because it's a third party i've installed onto my laptop so thats not the problem.
Just wondering if theres any easier way of actually creating responsive views for mobile such as using applications like Phonegap or if anyone can give me tips on how to properly create responsive content for mobile.
Thanks in advance
EDIT:
The second picture is larger because it was as a screenshot from my mobile phone, the screen sizes aren't different.
I suggest watching the New Boston's Responsive Web Design Playlist:
He will teach you the important basic concept of a responsive design using percentage and also creating your own custom menu or button in a responsive mobile version(that makes it almost like a mobile app in a browser).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgl3xXVlHI&list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGBaTsb1nse1UU48d_q7glGT
You should consider using bootstrap. It is a mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development
http://getbootstrap.com
#John Appleseed
use the Inspector
"Toggle device mode" or "Ctrl + Shift + M"
time you try your web site
and not just resize the page
I don't know your CSS but have a look at this
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp
I'm searching for a reason and a hint why my website (Link) is not shown correctly with responsive design (based on Twitter Bootstrap) on iPhone5 Safari Browser while it is completely working correctly on desktop using IE, Chrome or Safari. Also on HTC & Samsung Galaxy the website is working correctly.
By Googling I only could find 2 solutions which are
A) cleaning the cache of the browser and
B) using
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
Both doesn't fix the problem. Also simulating the iPhone 5 Device in Google Developer Tool shows the website correctly while in reality the page does not show the CSS design.
Here the:
False Responsive Design Screenshot
Any idea what I need to look for as I'm running out of possible ideas.
Based on the screenshot we moved away from the Iphone theory and discovered that there was simply a problem in one of the CSS files. We had a false symbol (?) in the file and this triggered that the full CSS was not loaded correctly. It seems though that all other devices were able to compensate the mistake.
Download bootstrap to your web server and include the path in the page, so don't have to rely on another source that could go down. This should fix your problem, if not, then just try Cordova. It is possible that your your phone is being blocked by the bootstrap site because the it is going over mobile network or something like that.
Source: Personal Experience
Regards,
PRO
I have successfully tested the responsive design of my website on an iPhone locally but when I deploy it the responsive design :
works when resizing my browser's size on my desktop
do not work on my iphone
When I say it works I mean I can see it toggles the Bootstrap navigation bar for small devices, uses my custom css media queries, etc.
I have these meta in my html :
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
The answers I have come across mention the meta tag but it is already present on my site (I used the HTML5 Boilerplate starter). Any other ideas ?
I finally found the issue... Not at all related to my code but to the redirection from my domain name to my hosted page. My provider was using a html wrapper that basically obliterated my HTML tags (and consequently my <meta> tags). What I did was just looking at the HTML and figuring something weird was happenning... I stopped using their odd web redirection and started configuring my DNS right. Everything is working fine now.
One thing you could look for are css media queries which might specifically target iPhones or smartphones and stop them displaying a responsive behaviour, while leaving desktop browsers unutouched.
For example comment out or re-inspect any css media queries that target (min-device-width : x) or (max-device-width: y)
Alternatively, post a URL so we can inspect the css
Good luck
I recently deployed a rails app onto: http://secret-brook-8909.herokuapp.com/
I intended it to look on the iphone 4s to look like it would using: http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr/
If you look at the stylesheet of my rails app you will actually see that i hardcoded all the widths of the containers to be 320px. But when I open it on my browser on my iphone it looks like its being opened on a larger resolution screen. Additionally, on the iPhone if you click the profile button, the button doesn't look the same as it does on a normal browser.
What can I do to fix these issues?
you need to add a viewport declaration on the head of the document
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
I can't see any issues in the HTML code and when I shrink my browser it displays perfectly.
When testing with the iPhone be careful of the caching that Safari does. Make sure you clear the cache and also close down any running instances of Safari before trying again.