HTML Responsiveness not working - html

Question

I'm facing issue for responsiveness using DreamWeaver 2017.
The CSS for the logo :
#logo {
margin-left: 6cm;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
/*width: 139px;*/
text-align: left;
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
Upon trying out the responsiveness :
I'm aware i'm using margin left which caused it.
The objective is to adapt both site and mobile site like this :
Also, if you observed even the input box also indent to the right..
.menu2 {
display: inline-flex;
text-decoration:none;
margin-left: 1.2cm;
color: #000000;
height: 40px;
}
I'm looking on other method than padding or margin.
Any critic/suggestion is welcome.
HTML codes:
<header>
<!-- This is the header content. It contains Logo and links -->
<div id="logo"><img src="logo.png" alt="sojologo"/>
<font color="black" class="menu1">ABOUT</font>
<button id="logodropdown"><img src="dropdown_arrow.png"/></button>
SIGN IN/<br>REGISTER
PROMOTIONS
TRAVEL<button id="logodropdown"><img src="dropdown_arrow.png"/></button>
<div class="menu2" style="border: 3px solid #DDD;">
<img src="icon_search.png"/>
<input size="50%" placeholder="Quick Search for any city or
street in Japan" style="border:none;"/>
</div>
</div>
</header>
Codepenio : https://codepen.io/jayvicious/pen/xrxbZz

Answer 1

There is a lot going on here that we can look at. One thing others have commented on is that your HTML needs cleaned up. Make sure that IDs are truly unique, and that each opening tag has a closing tag (except for self-contained elements, like images and inputs).
You could also stand to use some wrapping elements to help you contain the main areas of your header: the logo, the nav items, and the search.
From there, to help with responsiveness, I would recommend using percentages for your widths whenever possible, instead of absolute units like centimeters. This will help your display flex a little bit at bigger screen sizes. At some point, though, you'll need to just redo the layout because the screen will be too wide to fit all your elements in one line. That's where media queries come into play.
Media queries will let you override a base style when the screen is smaller (or larger) than a certain width. For example, we could set the body to be blue normally, then change to red on smaller screens:
body {
background-color: blue;
}
#media all and (max-width: 800px) {
body {
background-color: red;
}
}
Another thing we can do to tidy things up and make our life easier is to use classes when possible. The nav items are a good use case for this: most of their styles will be shared. We can give them each an ID just in case, but we may not even need to use all those IDs.
Edit: Another tidying opportunity I meant to mention is that the use of the <font> tag is deprecated as of HTML5, so you should avoid that in your HTML. I removed it from the HTML in my snippet below. (End edit.)
A final thing you can do is make the little triangles next to the nav items with HTML and CSS instead of as images. (You could also do these purely in CSS using pseudo elements.)
Here is a demo where I've cleaned up your HTML quite a bit and then heavily revised the CSS to look more like what's in the pictures you provided. I have used placeholder images with my best guess at their real sizes based on the picture. You'll see that as you resize the screen, the media queries kick in to make the header get taller and to center things in the middle of the screen.
I've also forked your Pen on CodePen.
#charset "utf-8";
/* Global Styles */
a:hover {
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
header {
font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
color: rgba(146,146,146,1.00);
background-color: #73A7D1;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
width: 100%;
height: 80px;
}
#header-wrapper {
width: 80%;
margin: 0 10%;
padding-top: 15px;
}
#logo, nav, #search {
float: left;
}
#logo {
width: 110px;
height: 50px;
}
nav {
width: 60%;
}
#search {
width: 200px;
}
.menu-item {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 2.5%;
height: 30px;
color: black;
max-width: 100px; /* forces "sign in/register to break at <wbr> tab */
text-align: center;
}
#menu2 {
position: relative; /* bump "sign in/register" down a bit */
top: 7px;
}
.triangle-down { /* dropdown arrows next to nav links */
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 6px solid transparent;
border-right: 6px solid transparent;
border-top: 6px solid black;
display: block;
float: right;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-left: 3px;
}
#search img, #search input {
float: left;
height: 30px;
}
#search img {
margin-right: 5px;
}
#search input {
width: 150px;
}
#media all and (max-width: 980px) {
header {
height: 160px;
}
#logo, nav, #search {
float: none;
margin: 0 auto;
}
nav {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
}
#media all and (max-width: 550px) {
header {
height: 200px;
}
}
<header>
<div id="header-wrapper">
<div id="logo"><img src="http://placehold.it/110x50" alt="sojologo"></div>
<nav>
<div class="menu-item" id="menu1">ABOUT<span class="triangle-down"></span></div>
<div class="menu-item" id="menu2">SIGN IN/<wbr>REGISTER</div>
<div class="menu-item" id="menu3">PROMOTIONS</div>
<div class="menu-item" id="menu4">TRAVEL<span class="triangle-down"></span></div>
</nav>
<div id="search">
<img src="http://placehold.it/30x30"/>
<input placeholder="Quick Search for any city or street in Japan" />
</div>
</div>
</header>

Answer 2

well FreedomPride
you can specify different properties for every class in each size of screens
you can use media query in this situation.
for example :
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.menu2 {
margin-left:20px;
}
}
as you see here I changed the margin in small screens 480px wide to 20px
and you can use it for each size
320px
480px
720px
1200px
you may get more information for mediaquery from here :
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp
here's example of how we can do it :
#charset "utf-8";
/* Global Styles */
a:hover {
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
/*header*/
header {
font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
color: rgba(146,146,146,1.00);
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
}
#menu1 {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 3cm;
margin-right: auto;
height: 30px;
}
.menu2 {
display: inline-flex;
text-decoration:none;
margin-left: 1.2cm;
color: #000000;
height: 40px;
}
/* Logo placeholder*/
#logo {
margin-left: 6cm;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
/*width: 139px;*/
text-align: left;
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
#logodropdown {
margin-left: 0px;
border: none;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
/* div for Links in header */
#headerLinks {
float: left;
width: calc( 100% - 139px );
text-align: right;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
/* Links in header */
#imgContainer{
float:left;
}
#headerLinks a {
text-decoration: none;
color: rgba(146,146,146,1.00);
padding-left: 66px;
font-size: 14px;
}
/* Offer text banner*/
#offer {
font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
clear: both;
background-color: rgba(246,246,246,1.00);
color: rgba(146,146,146,1.00);
padding-top: 57px;
padding-bottom: 57px;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 1366px) {
#logo {
margin-left: 1cm;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
/*width: 139px;*/
text-align: left;
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 1366px) {
#logo {
margin-left: 1cm;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
/*width: 139px;*/
text-align: left;
color: rgba(255,255,255,1.00);
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 1280px) {
#logo {
margin-left:30px;
}
#menu1 {
margin-left:35px;
}
.menu2 {
margin-left:20px;
}
.menu2 input {
max-width:300px;
}
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 992px) {
#logo {
margin-left:25px;
}
#menu1 {
margin-left:25px;
font-size:18px;
}
.menu2 {
margin-left:15px;
font-size:14px;
}
.menu2 input {
max-width:250px;
font-size:11px;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 720px) {
#logo {
margin-left:10px;
}
#menu1 {
margin-left:10px;
font-size:13px;
}
.menu2 {
margin-left:5px;
font-size:10px;
}
.menu2 input {
max-width:150px;
font-size:10px;
}
}
<header>
<!-- This is the header content. It contains Logo and links -->
<div id="logo"><img src="logo.png" alt="sojologo">
<font color="black" id="menu1">ABOUT</font>
<button id="logodropdown"><img src="dropdown_arrow.png"></button>
SIGN IN/<br>REGISTER
PROMOTIONS
TRAVEL<button id="logodropdown"><img src="dropdown_arrow.png"></button>
<div class="menu2" style="border: 3px solid #DDD;">
<img src="icon_search.png"/>
<input size="50%" placeholder=" Quick Search for any city or street in Japan" style="border: none;"/>
</div>
Notice: This isn't the best practice. but for more efficient you have to use any grid system or framework like bootstrap, foundation or uikit.

Answer 3

I think you should check for media rules to get full responsiveness in any width/height you want.