Currently I have set the left menu of page with percentage 20% of body width. However, I'm using this to make the menu stay the same place when I zoom the page. Now i want to use pixel for it,but i know when using fixed pixel, if we change screen,the menu width still stay the same and it look imbalance.
I have searched around and found 2 ways : using media query or using javascript trick. If i using query, i have to repeat for many different resolutions. The Javascript way seem to be dirty.
So, is there any other way to dinamycally change the size of element base on screen size with pixel ? I see web like Facebook or W3school have the left menu in pixel,and when i open the page in a bigger screen,the width increase. How can i do like that ?
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I would like to find out how to present a banner or logo on a responsive design but I can't find a question that is not flagged as bad or likely to be closed. I've tried numerous ways of phrasing the question and none of them are liked. So, I have no idea how to even present this question or even where to begin to look for the answer or how to ask the question. PLEASE, PLEASE give me an idea of how to word this so someone will see my question. I've tried web searches but nothing addresses the issue and I cannot even figure out how to work it.
In case someone sees this, what I am doing is taking a site that was not responsive and had a banner that was 1100 px wide by 110px in height. The trend seems to be to move away from such banners and use logos that are square or round instead or to use text for branding. If I just reduced the size of the banner to 500px wide then the height would proportionally decrease to only 40 or 50px if a percent value was used. That clearly won't look good on a small screen.
Also, if I reduced the image to a more square dimension the image isn't actually resizing by percent values when the CSS background-image style is used instead of an img tag surrounded by div tags. I haven't found a way to control alignment and size using percent values on the background-image property of a container. I could tell my client that we shouldn't use a wide banner in a responsive design but I don't know if that means I am missing an option.
A different image seems to be required on smaller displays using media queries. Can alignment and resizing as percent values be used with the background image CSS style or should different images be served using the img tag?
Lastly, on a high pixel density display tablet or even smartphone serve a large image due to the number of pixels wide being greater than 900px or 1000px? With high-density displays, it seems that even a smartphone could have a width greater than 1000px but that may not look right.
this will size it:
.img-class {
background-image: url('path/myImage.png');
background-size: 200px 200px;
}
first value is width, second value is height, you can also use %, or to scale the whole thing use a single value like for example: background-size: 80%;
A different image seems to be required on smaller displays using media
queries. Can alignment and resizing as percent values be used with the
background image CSS style or should different images be served using
the img tag?
Yes as long as you scale it down and not up, or it blurs out.
Lastly, on a high pixel density display tablet or even smartphone
serve a large image due to the number of pixels wide being greater
than 900px or 1000px? With high-density displays, it seems that even a
smartphone could have a width greater than 1000px but that may not
look right.
Just be sure your images are 'retina ready' and that's all, meaning if you want to place on your website a 200x200 px image, create it 400x400 px instead, then using css you force it to always be 200x200, so it will read a 400x400 and resize it to 200x200 making it not blurred on mobile.
Side note: If you have graphic images and not photographs, i recommend you using svg (vector images) now supported on all browsers, that are scalable so retina ready by default let's say, and way smaller in size.
I want to overlay a form with fields on to an image. Essentially I have created a picture that resembles and artist's desk. I have uploaded the image here:
(source: saeedalkhirbash.com)
I want the "Personal Details" section to be on top of one part of the image (post-its on a desk) and the remaining "Information section" on top of the graph paper on the desk. I have all the fonts etc already.
I have tried two methods:
method1: Coding my image as a background-image. This is easy to get form elements on top. The problem is that I cannot work out how to make the image do both of the following:
retain its proportions, with the width equal to the device width (and height scaled to retain the image's proportions);
and always show the full height and width.
I have tried adjusting the background size in %s, auto, and using cover, contain - no combination seems to work.
method2: I can make my image fit nicely with very simple code:
<img src="*.png" style="width:device-width">
and this works great. Unfortunately I cannot work out how to overlay the form elements. I have tried using z-index:1 as below, but this achieves nothing... (I have tried for both the form and fieldset attributes.
<form style="z-index:1"><fieldset> input blah blah </fieldset><form>
How can i do this ?
using a background image will be the easiest way to go. I think you will have issues with scale when viewing on a mobile device depending on how many fields you are planning on using and where.
By setting the form position to relative, and then any fieldsets to absolute, will allow you to posistion them accurately.
Your css for the background, so that it scales correctly, would look something like:
background: url('http://www.saeedalkhirbash.com/backgroundfinally.png') top left / 100% 100% no-repeat;
By setting the width of your form to be relative to its container, it will resize as the screen size changes. Using media queries is an easy way to resize based on device/screen width.
#media only screen and (max-width : 480px) {
div{width:300px;height:300px;}
}
Here is an example code pen for you - http://codepen.io/lukeocom/pen/bfeGC/
Resize the window so that it is less than 480px wide and see what happens...
For a version of the above demo that uses a relative width - http://codepen.io/lukeocom/pen/jBxzI/
Hope this helps
I do not know how resolutions work. If I set the width of my container elements to 1000px and the user opens the page from a 1300px resolution screen, then the right part of the screen 300px would be left white. I don't want that to happen. One way I know is with CSS Media Query but that way I'd have to write tonnes of lines of code. Also I don't want to do it with jQuery. Can someone explain me how resolutions work and how I can create resolution independent elements on my web page?
Use percentages instead of pixels.
for example
div {
height:60%;
width:40%;
}
Using percentages instead of pixels will make it the right size no matter what screen.
I have an HTML page that is using Bootstrap to show a weather forecast. This page is ultimately going to be shown inside of an iframe, so it has fixed dimensions. When the width is >= 768px, I want the images to show horizontally. This works fine when you make the browser wider. When the width is <768px, I want the images to stack themselves and shrink so that all of the text and images fit within the dimensions of the iframe. This is where I'm having trouble.
Here's my fiddle. I've used a parent div with fixed dimensions to simulate the iframe, and set its background color to show where the content overflows its parent. What should be showing is the day, followed by the image, followed by the high / low temperature beneath the image. This should then be repeated for Saturday and Sunday. Instead, the content is overflowing its container and being cut off. Also, the text is not showing in the proper order. I want to fix this while still ensuring that the horizontal images don't break when the browser is wider.
It's a bit confusing for me i guess as I'm still unable to understand your question completely. But is that what you are looking for?
http://jsfiddle.net/ALkKB/15/
#media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
#iframe{width:100%; height:auto;}
}
I appreciate all of your help San. I ended up eliminating the use of Bootstrap and just implemented my own CSS media queries based on the orientation of the iframe. I also had to use some Javascript to calculate how much room was left for the images once all of the other data was loaded and displayed.
Thanks again.
This is more of a general question; but I notice on some webistes (including stackoverflow) That when content is off the screen and the user has to scroll to the right background images/color stop at 100% of the screen view. Does anyone have a better idea how to fix this.... other than setting max and min widths?
here is a google doc of two different websites to explain what I am talking about.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/133Uek4Fd3G3eB6Zz4CNomPGzARevCUg4fAV4Xhvin-o/edit?usp=sharing
Josh C's response is spot on. If the elements that have background colours had min-widths that matched the content width (980px in stackoverflow's case) then the issue would be resolved. This is not only the easiest way, but probably the best practice)
Your alternative, if you don't want to set max and min values to your elements that use percentages, would be to not set fixed widths on elements (in the case of stack overflow, it's content width is fixed at 980px, and most everything else is fluid).
If content and it's children used max-width instead of width this problem would disappear.
Alternately, as lookingGlass points out, more fluid responsiveness.
Add breakpoints so that when your window size is below/above your ideal the site adapts.