I am new at html and css and when I increase my browser size my entire layout gets messed up and elements start overlapping one another. Can anyone show me a way to make my layout become responsive? Thank you in advance!
It depends on what you wanna do.
1) If you're learning HTML5 and CSS than you've got to watch towards bootstrap media queries to code fully responsive. To go further you will also need Javascript. There are also paying technologies.
2) If you just wanna make a responsive website without caring about the coding side, you should choose a CMS like Wordpress, Joomla etc... It will be faster for you and with a good responsive template, a very decent solution.
There is a nice tutorial in w3schools that uses we3.css stylesheet framework, very easy to start and see the entire problem. It uses images of different size and adpat itself to pc, tablets, smarthpones. Try it, I mean read, it is a short one, and will help you a lot, can you implement without adding that file, but changing easily yours.
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I've recently been tasked with the of making a website for a department in my school. One problem I've encountered is that the webpage will appear differently on all screens and like to know if it exists some kind of tag or way in css to make it auto adjust on all screens.
There is no easy answer, certainly none that would fit here. Here's a good place to start:
Here is a good introduction to responsive web design, which will help you deal with how your sites will appear on different screen sizes, and different devices. Good luck.
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-to-responsive-web-design
Try using media queries. Please check:
Media Queries
Take a look at responsive CSS: W3Schools Responsive CSS. This includes information about how to make your own as well as examples of existing popular frameworks such as Bootstrap and Framework.
Hi Im currently creating a Website (who isn't?). My Website Design Looks like this:
Desktop Version:
Mobile Version:
(Sorry for the Big Images)
As you can see, ist not much changing.
Sidebar and the Global Nav are disabled in the Mobile Version (Menü via o/Off Canvas)
The main Content Layout Changes.
The Layout in the Content divs Changes too. (Use nested Colums fot that in the Grid System?)
My Question is: Should I use a Grid System? If Yes: Should I just use it for the Orange Content Area or for the hole Website?
Added: The Site should is Full with!
As mmgross said, you're asking a pretty broad question that comes down to taste and experience in design.
There are a number of tools and frameworks that give you access to an already defined grid system; Bootstrap is probably the best known but Foundation CSS is becoming very popular and is lighter weight. If you're not planning to do much intricate styling and just want a preexisting grid, my personal choice is Skeleton - it's very lightweight but adds the grid/responsiveness you're [probably] looking for.
This brings up the other main point: how experienced are you using HTML/CSS? One of the big benefits of using a grid is the responsiveness that comes from them without writing a number of media queries. Still, you'll have to at least write one media query to detect if mobile, so if you're comfortable with position in CSS then it might be best just to pass over grids and write it all yourself (looking at your layout, that's what I'd probably do).
It's always a trade off between time it takes to do the task and time it takes to learn something new, so keep in mind that the learning curve for some of the frameworks might be steeper than you think. Then again, if you're experienced with using them, it will probably be easier to stick with what you know than play around with the raw CSS.
Hope that helped!
I just tested few of my webpages in cross browsers testing tool and found out that for lower resolutions all my divs were not coming separately.
Afters googling I found out about responsive griding.
After reading that I wanted to ask that whether responsive griding is nothing but making your web page responsive to different changes in screen sizes or does it have anything more to it
Also I am using purecss to make my web page responsive so I needed to know whether this is the right way or and what other ways are there to do this.
Pretty much, it's also about curtailing content based on your audience. Say that people on mobile don't need to read all the reviews on the page you would hide it or show it in a different way. Whether or not to use pure is completely your personal preference. There are a gargantuan amount of responsive frameworks, you should look at what they offer to your own goals of customization or extensibility. Foundation for example offers lovely JavaScript addons you can use for modals, sliders and navigation.
Good luck and please add to your question if you need to ask more!
Your choice to use pure I feel is a good one because its extremely light weight and style agnostic. While bootstrap and foundation are more popular choices they can be up to 10 to 20 times larger.
Check out TukTuk as well, its similar in nature to Pure:
http://tuktuk.tapquo.com/
Yes, you've got the right idea. You can use frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap, or Zurb Foundation, which have all the CSS you need for responsive grids. The basic idea is using CSS media queries to apply different CSS rules for different screen sizes. Javascript can also be used to show/hide features which might work better on mobile.
The issue:
I'm working simple html website that I want to work on any web browser size, so basically if you resize the browser the website will resize to and you won't have to scroll horizontally on the webpage.
I am assuming this has to do with CSS, I've been going thru my html book but unfortunately it doesn't cover this, I've also tried googling but I don't really now how to put it in words so basically google doesn't help me, at least not until I know what this is called.
The word you're looking for I guess would be responsive design / css.
If you are ok with reusing existing frameworks I'd suggest you try:
lessframworkd
responsive grid system
gskeleton *
bootstrap *
* are fullblown frameworks that include a lot of other features as well
Or have a look at this nice collection
You might be looking for these words:
CSS GRID SYSTEM » http://960.gs/
ADAPTIVE CSS DESIGN
FLUID CSS DESIGN
or even
MEDIA QUERY CSS
I've never done this before. The website I have just built is the second one I have ever built. There is a main container div and a header. I noticed that this simple html/css and js site looks terrible on mobile devices.
When it comes to making the site fluid are there any rules or approaches to make it quick and easy? If I just start changing all set pixel widths to percentages will the elements lose thir alignment in relation to each other? For example, the image in the main image slider is aligned, using pixels, based upon the position of the logo in the header.
Before I get started any pointers would be most appreciated. Here is the site: www.hauswoods.com
I would suggest you look into media queries instead, this will allow you to specify CSS related to different screen sizes. Yes, you could change your website to a liquid/fluid layout but with your current content, getting the slider and images to look right will be a headache.
A quick and easy approach would be to use a framework like Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
I'm sure some people would argue that you won't learn if you use that (because it will do a lot for you), but I think you can learn by example.
Bootstrap uses progressive enhancement principles to improve UIs and uses something called 'Less' for making CSS a bit more generic (at the expense of some complexity). Still, you can use whichever bits you like from it. If you've got a greenfield site it's a good place to start. It supports fluid layouts and explains to you how your design will degrade on mobile devices with smaller screens.
There are plenty of good tutorials out there:
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=199
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/liquid/
http://css-tricks.com/the-perfect-fluid-width-layout/
Below are IMHO some of the best JS-frameworks/html5-templaters that help with what you're trying to achieve. No need to re-invent the wheel.
Twitter Bootstrap
Foundation
CreateJS
Skeleton
HTML5 Boilerplate
HTML KickStart
Montage HTML5 Framework
SproutCore
Zebra
if you want your website to be fluid just use percentage instead of pixels.
.classname{
width: 80%;
}