media queries in css not working properly - html

I am using this code in my web page and I tried different settings for min-width but it take values only from the media query having least width.
#media only screen and (min-width: 900px) {
li{
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;
}
li.one{
padding-left: 13%;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 800px) {
li {
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;}
li.two{
padding-left: 9%;
}
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 600px),screen and (max-width: 601px) {
li {
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;
}
li.three{
padding-left: 7%;
}
}
Don't know what is stopping other queries to work properly.

Please add this code in your HTML page
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

1.) Your third query should be written like this:
#media only screen and (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 601px) {...
(a comma would mean two independent selectors)
2.) You made your li elements inline elements. But an inline element can't have any padding - all these padding values don't affect anything. So change the display settings to inline-block for these.

The order of query sizes should be changed. In CSS, the last valid query wins, so the query falls though to the smallest. The largest should come last.

#media (min-width: 768px) {} works for me. also add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> to head tag

#media screen and (min-width: 320px) {
//your css class
}
#media screen and (min-width: 321px) and (max-width:480px){
//your css class
}
#media screen and (min-width: 481px) and (max-width:720px) {
//your css class
}
#media screen and(min-width: 721px) and (max-width:1080px) {
//your css class
}
#media screen and(min-width: 1080px) and (max-width: 1280px){
//your css class
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1281px) and (max-width: 1920px){
//your css class
}
Try using your queries like this, this way worked for me

You have left one curly bracket inside 900 media query. Copy this code and replace media query.
#media only screen and (min-width: 900px) {
li {
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;
}
li.one{
padding-left: 13%;
}
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 800px) {
li {
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;
}
li.two{
padding-left: 9%;
}
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 601px) {
li {
display: inline;
padding-left : 5%;
padding-right: 5%;
}
li.three{
padding-left: 7%;
}
}

add this to in your head tag and close proper media query braces you didnt close do check properly.

Related

Media Query below 768px not working

I am writing a media query for a web-page and managed to write media queries for 768 and below. But it doesn't work properly. I want to capture the portrait views of most of the mobiles( iphone4, iphone5,iphone3,asus galaxy 7,samsung galaxy sII, samsung galaxy s3 ) which is 320px. The webpage I created was working for 768px and above but not working for media query below 768px
#media (min-width:481px) and (max-width:768px) {
.navbar-brand{
margin-left: 80px;
}}
#media (min-width: 768px){
.navbar-brand{
margin-left: 100px;
}
#media (min-width: 991px){
.navbar-brand{
margin-left: 150px;
}}
Here in this example margin left property working very well on min-width: 768px and min-width:991px but not working on #media (min-width:481px) and (max-width:768px).
You are missing a curly bracket to close of your media query for min-width: 768px. Here's the final code with formatting to more easily see it.
#media (min-width:481px) and (max-width:768px) {
.navbar-brand {
margin-left: 80px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 768px) {
.navbar-brand {
margin-left: 100px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 991px) {
.navbar-brand{
margin-left: 150px;
}
}
For capturing screensizes that is 320px with a specific margin you can either remove (min-width:481px) and from your first media query if the same styling should apply or add a media query specific for that case:
#media (max-width: 320px) {
.classname {
enter some code here
}
}
Please take a look and confirm below media queries with updated code.
#media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
.navbar-brand {
margin-left: 100px;
}
}
#media only screen (min-width: 481px) and (max-width:767px) {
.navbar-brand {
margin-left: 80px;
}
}

Media query changing itself?

I set a media query to change properties of my #secondary wrapper
This is the media query I set
#media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.left-sidebar #secondary {
float: right;
width: 100%!important;
}
The problem is its not applying those changes until 479px even though i set it to 676px;
When i look in dev tools in google to view the css it looks like this
#media (max-width: 479px)
#media screen and (max-width: 767px)
.left-sidebar #secondary {
float: right;
width: 100%!important;
}
Why could this be happening and how do i fix it?
It looks like your issue is missing braces on your media queries. I usually find it helpful to indent everything within a media query so this doesn't happen by accident.
#media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.left-sidebar #secondary {
float: right;
width: 100% !important;
}
}
Instead of
#media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.left-sidebar #secondary {
float: right;
width: 100%!important;
}

The screen size overwrites the other ones :S

Ive been trying to make a change of my category images depending on screen size. But right now only the first screen width size are being used. It seems as though the other ones are being overridden by the first row of code (max-width: 769px). (on this site: http://origami.directory/)
What can I do so it changes 3 times as it should do?
.category-list-item {
float: left;
padding: 1em;
}
#media screen and (max-width: 769px) {
.category-list-item { width: 20%; }
};
#media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
.category-list-item { width: 25%; }
};
#media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.category-list-item { width: 33.33%; }
};
If someone could help me fix this I would be super grateful!
/ Martin
Remove the extra semi-colon ; from the end of your queries.
Your queries should be like this:
#media screen and (max-width: 769px) {
.category-list-item { width: 20%; }
}
#media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
.category-list-item { width: 25%; }
}
#media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.category-list-item { width: 33.33%; }
}
Your queries are conflicting with each other making the second query obsolete. Specify a range for each like this:
#media (max-width: 480px) {
.category-list-item{width: 33.33%;}
}
#media (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 768px) {
.category-list-item { width: 25%; }
}
#media (min-width: 769px) {
.category-list-item { width: 20%; }
}
I'm not very sure with the min-width:769px part so just let me know what exactly are you trying to do and I'll fix that accordingly. The above is just to show you how queries work basically.

styles over riding styles when using #media in css

So I am having a noob issue, one that is annoying me greatly. So I have the following type of style sheet:
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
background: #714f46;
padding: 10px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
font-family: "custom-script";
position: relative;
height: 52px;
font-size: 34px;
padding-top: 12px;
}
#media (min-width: 960px) {
}
#media (min-width: 768px) {
}
#media (min-width: 640px) {
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
width: 453px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 480px) {
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
width: 353px;
}
}
Now the issue is that anything over 641px will use the 640px rule. Even if the screen is 1920x1200. I think its because I don't have a width defined for the original element? if thats case, I slap a width on the original element of 453px:
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
...
width: 453px;
}
But the problem is, its almost like the #media rule has precedence, because in the crhome inspector when the width is 1366px, it still uses the 640px rule instead of the width I just defined. Now I was thinking of, instead of doing: (min-width: xyzpx) I would use max-width but that seems to take a way the smooth scaling down affect that the client wants, they don't want it jumping between media sizes.
Should my element have a max-width of 453px to override the #media rule?
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
...
max-width: 453px; /** or a min-width: 453px **/
}
Essentially my questions are:
Why is my #media rule overriding any other rule on the page. In this case why is it using the width in the 640 rule to apply to anything above when the original definition of the element in question does not specific a width?
And
Why is when I specify a width for that original definition of the element, that the #media rule, which defined a new width at 640px overrides it, especially when the windows width is say 1366px?
From what I understand your issue is that you want to apply the Non-Mobile First Method, and by using that you have to use the max-width instead of min-width
like this:
/*========== Non-Mobile First Method ==========*/
#media only screen and (max-width : 960px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width : 768px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width : 640px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width : 480px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width : 320px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
or if you want to use the Mobile First Method then you should use min-width but this way:
/*========== Mobile First Method ==========*/
#media only screen and (min-width : 320px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (min-width : 480px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (min-width : 640px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (min-width : 768px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (min-width : 960px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
Below is a snippet from what I understand it is what you are looking for:
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
background: #714f46;
padding: 10px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
font-family: "custom-script,arial";
position: relative;
height: 52px;
font-size: 34px;
padding-top: 12px;
}
/*========== Non-Mobile First Method ==========*/
#media only screen and (max-width: 960px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {
#content .post-content .row .col-md-6 .box-top {
width: 453px;
}
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 320px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
<div id="content">
<div class="post-content">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="box-top">Something
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Try reversing order of your media queries. Smallest min-width first.
Say your window width is 700px. Then (min-width: 960px) and (min-width: 768px) does not match and are skipped but both (min-width: 640px) and (min-width: 480px) do match styles inside these blocks are applied in order they appear in CSS file. And later styles override previous styles, e.g.:
p { color: green; }
p { color: red; }
Your p color would be red.
This live example may be a bit clearer: http://jsbin.com/yuqigedudi/1/edit?html,output
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JS Bin</title>
<style>
/* Default color when no media queries bellow match.
In this our case when window width < 200px */
p { color: black }
/* If window size >= 200px */
#media (min-width: 200px) {
p { color: red }
}
/* If window size >= 300px */
#media (min-width: 300px) {
p { color: orange }
}
/* If window size >= 400px */
#media (min-width: 400px) {
p { color: blue }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Resize this frame and see my color change!
</p>
</body>
</html>

min width vs max width media queries CSS

I hope someone can help me with media queries?.
I have a series of min width -max width media queries .
However, if I remove the max-width syntax, the layout will break, but I can't figure out why this is happening.
If I remove the max-width syntax (including the and), the logic should be the same.. I'm saying, apply styles from 320px up, then apply new styles from 480px up
How can I convert this to just min width? (mobile first approach).
Am I missing something obvious?
#media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width : 480px) {
#header h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
#nav ul li {
margin: 0 .8em .6em 0;
display: block;
}
.......................more rules
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width : 800px) {
#header h1 {
font-size: 2.4em;
}
#nav ul li {
margin: 0 .8em .6em 0;
display: inline-block;
....................................more rules
}
}
You don't need to set max-width if you are using Mobile First Method:
So, try something like this:
/*========== Mobile First Method ==========*/
#media only screen and (min-width : 320px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (min-width : 480px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
In case you want to use the Non-Mobile First Method you don't need to set min-width and it looks like this:
/*========== Non-Mobile First Method ==========*/
#media only screen and (max-width : 480px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}
#media only screen and (max-width : 320px) {
/*your CSS Rules*/
}