Only 1 Div Not 100% in Mobile - html

So I'm working on a quick portfolio and in mobile, the "email me" does not expand across the entire screen as it should, as seen on this screenshot.
I've fiddled around with content width, device width, etc. using numbers, percentages, text values, and nothing has worked to make this page perfect. I rewrote the code to be cleaner and still can't find my mistake. Is it just something I'm overlooking?
You can just view my source to get my code, since the CSS should be there.
UPDATE: I removed the navigation padding and changed all of the device-width values but now the navigation bar does not go completely across. I am very confused since the #navigation and #mobilecontact should essentially have the same widths. I'm using Safari on iPhone.

Can you add the browser and version that you are testing on, because Email me button looks fine for me (occupies entire width) in latest chrome - developer tools.
May be your browser didn't understand 100vw
If you are concerned about the clickable area of "email me" anchor text.
You can make the anchor as display:block, so that it takes up entire row

I think you are using mac safari browser and in safari browser "vw" is not supported so now you can use "px" or "%" and button will be expand.

I have checked.. you need to fix following this
First of all you should remove "width=500" from your meta, highlighted in below image.
Add following in your CSS to fix paddings
* {
box-sizing:border-box;
}
Instead of width: device-width use width: 100% and add more properties in #title . see image
Update CSS for #about, #experience, #skills to width:100%
and thats it you all are done.
Here is final result
All you need to do is to fix font-size

When you want to have a responsive design; you don't need to use specific Width for block level elements.
just
remove numerical width from body's children, then add
body,html
{
width:100%;
box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
}
and then if you want to set padding or margin to viewport element; the standard way is just one element with specific class handle width like bootstrap container class

So I have managed to achieve the required result.
Basically the extra padding you are adding on <div id="navigation"> (padding-left: 350px) is part of the issue.
Also you are incorrectly using the device-width attribute value. One cannot specify the width of html elements using width=device-width;. Width attribute does not accept device-width as an acceptable value.
So replace that with width=100%; or width=100vw; everywhere you have used it. See here for documentation on responsive web design using viewport meta tag and device-width.
I was able to get the button to occupy 100% of the screen width by making these changes.
Remove padding-left: 350px from <div id="navigation">.
For <div id="title"> and <div id="about"> in the media queries for max-width: 500px, changing width from width: device-width to 100% or 100vw.
Here is the output. Let me know if it works out.

Related

Full Width Banner that Doesn't Affect Viewport Size

I've been battling with this simple issue for a while and I'm looking for some help...
I'm trying to make a full width colour banner that spans the full width of the page, but doesn't in any way affect the browser viewport sizing. I want it to be visible to human eyes, but I don't want it to affect the size/location of the browser's start view or scrolling behavior... just like it's not really there.
I also want to be able to place the banner in-line in the HTML.
Here is my test page: http://www.tanatu.com/widthtest
The Green Banner works perfectly, but it's y-location is defined in CSS (which is a pain)
The Pink Banner is my best guess so far, and works as intended on Chrome, but not on Safari on iOS, where the viewport is skewed to one side
Safari iOS Positioning Issue
Correct Positioning
I've been playing with this for months so any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated! :0)
Thanks!
Because you are trying to break out of your parent container that is where your challenge is. You can do this a few ways but I think the easiest without completely changing your markup would be to use a combination of viewport width units and calc()
If you change these attributes on #widthtest4 it should work:
#widthtest4 {
width: 100vw;
margin-left: calc(-50vw + 426px);
}

Firefox ignoring min-height in CSS when using calc or percentage

I currently have a website where I'd like the main body portion of the page and footer (below the header image and navigation bar) to always take up the available view space, but to expand below this if there's more content. I've been setting min-height of my container of class mainbody to a calc() function. The HTML and CSS have been tested and behave correctly in Safari and Chromium, however it fails to behave as intended on Firefox. The problem is most apparent on the Alumni page, which has no content at the moment, and also occurs on the Media page on a large enough screen . Is there anything I'm doing wrong?
100% height means 100% of the height of the content. To be honest, I don't know why it works in chromium and not in firefox.
What you need is 100% of the viewport. There are cool vw and vh units for that. (See availability.).
If you change min-height to min-height: calc(100vh - 268px) !important;, it will work.
If you want old style solution, you can google 100% height css, e.g. enter link description here
P.S.: Also fix your CSS.

Image difference in Firefox and Chrome

I have a significant difference in a logo image i have when it is displayed in Chrome compared to Firefox (I did my testserver on Firefox and then live in Chrome)
Here are the 2 differences:
Firefox
Chrome
It should be appearing as it does in Firefox. I switched the logo and added in image characteristics to make it fit rather than editing the CSS file.
Here is the code:
<a class="navbar-brand" href="index.html"><img src="img/logo09.png" width="250%" height="250%" alt="logo"></a>
Is there a quick fix to this? Thanks in advance for any help :)
Use stylesheet, inline styles or Dimension attributes are a nightmare to maintain...
height: 123px; /*or any other fixed/dynamic value, unit*/
width: auto; /*let the browser do the scaling */
would help (unless you're running into specificity issues)
Also it's goot to know that in HTML5 % are not allowed on attributes width="" and height=""
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img
<img> attributes
width
The intrinsic width of the image in HTML5 CSS pixels, or HTML 4 in pixels or as a percentage.
height
The intrinsic height of the image in HTML5 CSS pixels, or HTML 4 in pixels or as a percentage.
The issue you may be having can be related to your use of percentage. You set them to 250% but percent of what? It should be the parent element but what is the parent element set to? The parent of the image is the anchor element which has no width set and is not a block level element.
Try setting the parent element to some fixed width and see if the issue goes away or both browsers display the same.
For example, I set the enclosing anchor element to display:block; and set its width to 500px.
Replace the percentage width with a fixed pixel width. Firefox and Chrome register % measurements differently, due to the fact that the containers are laid out slightly differently. Also, add the measurements to a class and give then an !Important attribute. I believe Chrome has a css file it uses on all the sites visited in it, which gives some design layouts etc.
UPDATE:
After your comment, try looking in developer tools at the element to see if something is overwriting it. If there isn't, then I'm not sure what to suggest. Maybe go with a different design, such as a centered div with the elements inside, or use a navbar with this logo in, or a centralised logo without the bar. There are lots of options. Sorry I couldn't be more help

Set a css property to screen width using css

Is there any way to set a css property to the screen width?
What I want to achieve is something close to this:
div{width: screen width; }
Or
.divTest{width: screen width; }
Edit 1:
I would like to use the class to exactly size other elements with the current width as i choose with css.
Edit 2:
I don't believe it can be done without scripting of some sort but what do I know.
Edit 3: Final Thoughts
A post about the widow re-sizing script using JavaScript is here in Alex V's answer. You'd just add in the script flavor you want. In my case it'd be setting a class property. However I believe setting visual attributes with JavaScript can be bad practice/undesirable in certain uses.
Try width: 100vw; or as the above comment suggests, width: 100%;.
You may also want to set the meta tag in the HTML if it applies:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Edit:
If the <div> isn't fitting 100% of the screen width, perhaps you need to have the default margin/padding reset:
*, :before, :after {
box-sizing: border-box; // habit
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Generally, a div, if it's set to display:block (which is the default in most browsers, I believe) will expand to the full width of it's parent. If you want it to be the full width of the screen, it really depends on the way your page is configured.
If the div is within another element that is only set to width:500px or any other size, the div will only be the width of the parent. But if div's parent is the html body, then it should be the full width of the screen.
I've been smacking my head around on html and css a lot lately, and the best tool I've found to figure out CSS issues like this is Chrome's developer tools. You can actually right-click and "inspect" the div you are looking at. Then you can try out all the different css settings you want and Chrome will show you in real-time what effect those things will have.
Viewport units for CSS
vw, vh
1vw = 1% of viewport width
1vh = 1% of viewport height
Sizing div based on window width

CSS, Width:100% and the iPhone - what more can I try?

I am quite some way through a pretty much CSS only solution to make a mobile site for our e-commerce site. It's actually going quite well, apart from the fact that the x-axis consistently has a margin that shouldn't be there - I have put it in the CSS that width is 100% for most properties.
The only thing that has worked in visual practice (it made the y-scrolling really stuttery) was the addition of:
html
{
overflow-x:hidden;
}
So although it looked great and was exactly what I wanted I couldn't get the scrolling to be fixed, which is pointless for a mobile site.
On top of that I also added this to the page to detect screensize:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" />
I think that somewhere the media query is causing havoc:
#media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
Because it is the only place that specifies the 480px aspect of anything, and that's exactly where the margins continue to. So is it something I'm doing wrong here?
In hindsight I'm not entirely sure where I got the 480px from - think it was a copy and paste job!
Other things I have tried were removing the absolute positioning from a lot of elements, making sure everything has width of auto and displaying in a block.
I'm out of ideas and just want everything to be like the overflow-x solution!
Thanks in advance.
As a rule, you shouldn't have to specify width: 100% on anything.
Chances are you have some padding or something on one of those elements causing it to be > 100%. All display: block elements will fill the width by default, you don't need to specify that.
It's not always the padding either, margin-right has caught me out enough times because you can't actually see it but it's there, pushing out the content
My guess is that a padding causes your element to be larger than 100%. If you want to avoid this, you can try applying box-sizing : border-box; to the affected element. Width and height will then include padding so you will actually get 100% ( or X pixels ) of width regardless of the padding and size of border you set.