Check responsive design using chrome - html

I have a webpage with svg background and form. The background is divided to 2 sections.
Top area - background image / bottom area - background color
Had an issue with some mobile devices, the bottom background comes up behind trees like this.
I have fixed that issue by writing media queries. After that I checked major devices responsive compatibility by chrome device emulator. All are fine. But my client complained me that he was getting that background issue on his device.(microsoft surface pro 4) Then I got back to chrome device emulator and added custom device as a surface pro 4 and set actual resolution.(2736x1824) But it's showing fine on chrome tool. (pc) This is my settings.
I'm getting this error because of not setting up device pixel ratio? or any other way to check mobile compatibility correctly?

There are lot of ad-dons available for testing responsive website on respective devices I used following add on you can try this addons
Responsive Web Design Tester - chrome
toggle Responsive - Mozilla
Just search for this addons and click on the add addons button on respective browser search for respective addons .

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How to emulate Surface Pro 4 in browser

I have a user who is using my web app on a Surface Pro 4. The app doesn't render very well. The best way I can describe it is that it appears the browser window has been resized to a small size and it's trying to bunch stuff up. However, I believe he has his browser maximized.
Since I don't have a Surface, I've been trying to get both Chrome and Edge to emulate the rendering issues. Here's what I've tried:
Edge: Has a preset for the Surface Pro 4. I figured that once I selected this mode I would see the problem. It's actually the opposite situation. I actually have to expand the browser window to multiple displays to be able to see all the content (even the browser scrollbars). I suspect that's due to the Surface having a higher resolution than my PC.
Chrome: No preset for the Surface and I couldn't find anyone who had the specific settings. I tried 2738 x 1834 and all three of the built-in pixel ratios (1.0, 2.0, 3.0). Chrome zoomed out so that it all fit on my screen. It also had no rendering issues. Changing pixel ratio made no difference.
I'll admit that web UI development is not my strong suit. And it doesn't help that I inherited a lot of this code. But I'm really scratching my head here.
If I try to emulate with a phone preset, then I can see rendering issues because the app isn't phone friendly, nor does it really need to be. That seems to suggest the emulation in the browser is working fine. What's left? The only thing I can think is that he must be using some kind of scaling that's messing things up.
Also, I should note that I had a friend with an iPad (Sorry don't know what model) try the app out as well and he also sees the same bad rendering issues. In fact, he thinks it's rendering worse than the Surface.
Edit 1:
I put together a test page that shows the header from our app. It is here: https://app.astrolabe-analytics.com/surfaceTest
Here are screenshots of the various displays being tested:
Here is Surface Pro 4 Hardware - Notice buttons are wrapping
Next one is iPad Hardware (I don't believe it's the pro version)
Then here is the way I have Chrome set up to emulate the Surface Pro
Surface Pro 4 emulation in Edge. Note that I had to extend the browser window onto my second monitor to take the screenshot.
Finally, the standard appearance in Chrome
It seems that the emulation works well on my side. please check the following screen shots:
Edge emulation for iPad,
Edge emulation for Surface Pro 4,
Chrome emulation for iPad:
Chrome emulation for Surface Pro 4:
Besides, I also found that if we resize the browser window (change the width property), if the width is too small, the text will wrap or disappear. Please check this image:
So, I suppose the issue is related to the CSS style, as a workaround, you could try to set fixed width property (or using the min-width property) for the navbar-nav class, also, you could refer to the following links to use Bootstrap navbar styles:
Bootstrap Navbar
Angular Bootstrap navbar

Differences between Desktop Wordpress dev console and iPhone Safari browser window

I'm having a problem with Wordpress. I've styled my website in the customize console in Wordpress on my Desktop, but when I open it with my iPhone (can't confirm if this is happening with other mobile browsers) there is this gray border on the outside of the block. Here's a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/A3nEgTy
I can't find any information about this or find anything about other people having this issue. Is there some way to access the source code or Inspect tool in mobile Safari? Just trying to make the block fill the screen.

WordPress 125% duplicates widgets / Change Media breakpoints

//Initial situation - What I have and what I want
I am using WordPress version 5.1.1 with the Elementor Page Builder Plugin version 2.5.8 and I want to make a responsive website looking good on both desktop and mobile, tablet as well.
So I have a section with two columns within the row where below is the same system for 2 more times on desktop view. When it comes to mobile, I want a different adjustment.
so the trick I use is, I duplicate the widget and align the elements within the second section and set the first one to hide on mobile and the second to hide on desktop and tablet. So far so good, it seems all working.
//The problem - What doesn't work and needs to be fixed
As I told above, the system I use seems to be working, on mobile it only shows the second section, on desktop only the first. Tested on 100% size in the windows display settings and zoom in the browser and separate browsers.
BUT When it comes to 125% in the windows display settings and I split the page via the windows function to half of the screen, it shows both sections which either doesn't look good and really isn't what I want and need. It only happens with Google Chrome browser, all others "decide" which device it's using at the moment, only chrome shows on 125% AND half screen at the same time both sections.
What can I do / How can I fix this issue?
Edge eg. sets on the half screen to tablet while Chrome is still in Desktop.
MAybe it has something to do with Madia breakpoints? Can I change them in WP-Settings?
Thanks in advance and best regards!
Edit: Pictures to show what it kinda looks like:
This is the standard desktop view of this section
This is the standard tablet view of the second section
This is how it looks in Google Chrome 125% Windows 100% Browser Zoom Half Screen
Don't have any manual media queries, they're all standard. Works with all on 100% Windows resolution, only on 125% Google Chrome it's weird.

Which tool should I use for responsive web development: Chrome web developer tool or simply resize the window?

I have been trying to make a responsive website for mobile devices . I have found two ways to test responsive design:
By resizing the window
Using Google Chrome developer's tools
In both of them I get a different view. Which one gives me the right view, as I use font-size and padding in 'em'.
Resizing browser window is not Responsive. While developing Responsive applications the easiest, but yet not perfect, way is using Chrome's Developer tools. Even that may give you different results, because mobile device screens are using not just width/height but also dpi. So 320 iphone6s screen is not going to be perfect match for 320px resized browser or equivalent android device.
Go for chrome developer tools. It's a great way of checking responsiveness. It comes with dimensions of popular mobile and tablet devices. So you can check for a variety of device at once.
Simply resizing the browser is not a right way of checking responsiveness.
Recently I built a page that works fine with both the ways you mentioned. You can check it here.
Let me know if you need any help.
I would say Chrome Dev Tools is the best bet for a local snapshot.
However, if you have access to one or more mobile devices you may want to launch the site on Heroku or another production environment and view it from the actual device.
An iPhone 6 for example, I find Chrome does not take into account the address bar or bottom nav in safari so things can be slightly off from the Chrome Dev view of iPhone 6.

test website on different screen resolution

One user reported me that on his 11 inch macbook air all messed up. Now I do not have idea how can I fix that. Maybe there is some tools that I can use to emulate 11 inch macbook air?
Thanks
If you're using Firefox 15 or later, you can use the responsive design view by pressing Ctrl-Shift-M or going to the Firefox menu -> Web Developer -> Responsive Design View. That lets you easily resize the page (from a list of common resolutions, or arbitrarily by dragging the edges) without having to resize your browser window (as well as letting you resize it larger than your window). Other browsers might have a similar feature, but I'm not sure.
If you press Ctrl + Shift + M in your keyboard on, Mozilla Firefox and/or Google Chrome, then they will launch the Responsive Design View (Firefox) or Device Toolbar (Chrome) mode. Here you can manually adjust the window width and height to a match any device dimensions you wish, or you can also select from a set of preset device dimension options. It also gives the option to view the selected dimensions in either landscape/ portrait mode (for portable devices such as mobile or tablets) to see how a/your website would look in those different orientations.
I am not sure about any other browsers, but you can try to use the above keyboard shortcut, on another browser of your choice and see if it works there aswell.
Alternatively you can manually toggle the Responsive Design View (Firefox) or Device Toolbar (Chrome) modes, by navigating to:
Firefox 59
Menu (hamburger icon on top right) > Web Developer > Responsive Design Mode
Chrome 65
Menu (Three-dot icon on top right) > More Tools > Developer Tools
OR
Simply press Ctrl + Shift + I to launch the Developer Tools
Once the Developer Tools has launched click on the toggle device toolbar icon on the top-left corner of the Developer Tools menu, to view the webpage in responsive design view.
Again, I am only aware of doing this in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, so other browsers may have a similar or different approach.
UPDATE
Edge Browser (Windows 10)
Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + SHIFT + I, OR navigate to Menu (three-dot icon on top right) > F12 Developer Tools to open the developer tools Menu, then go to the Emulation tab to see options for customising the window to different device size and dimensions.
First, you do not need to emulate a 11 inch screen but the screen resolution because no matter the inch of the screen, resolution can have multiple values.
I would suggest you to use a pluggin like "web developper" available for firefox and chrome (don't know for others), it will help you to resize your browser in different resolutions for testing.
chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm
firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/web-developer/
You can also use web app to test your site at different screen resolutions.
http://whatismyscreenresolution.net/multi-screen-test
Go to tool to test website at different resolution , enter your site's url, and hit "test" button
Get the resolution of MacBook Air and enter it in the toobar.
This tool is really good and apart from testing your site for MacBook Air, you can also test it for different device resolutions