So I'm having an issue where my site has a lot of padding on the right side, making the layout load incorrectly. It appears correctly in on my desktop when the window is resized, but everything other than the header breaks when viewed on my phone. All of the relevant divs are set to a width of 480px, and I have the following tag in my header for the media query:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Here are screenshots of how it appears on desktop and mobile, as well as a link to my mobile css page (the menu is open on mobile, but the extra space seems to affect it as well).
CSS Page
Edit: I'm now having a slightly different issue, where the margin has been added to the entire right side of the screen. I changed the pixel widths for many of the divs to 100%, as well as adding the <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0"> tag to the header. While they can no longer zoom out, you can just scroll the screen horizontally to find the padding. I'm also having an issue with my font-face tag, which no longer loads the header fonts. I updated the css file, so hopefully that shows why it won't work anymore.
Also, here's a link to the live site: Link
You shouldn't be setting explicit widths here, (at least not in pixels anyway) and from a brief glance at what you've posted I'd imagine that's where your issue lies.
Firstly, take off the widths that you've set for anything that you intend on being "full width" - remember divs are block-level elements anyway, so if you don't set a width at all, they'll have a width of 100%.
Secondly, take off any other pixel widths you're setting and change them to be percentages instead.
Thirdly, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you set 'box-sizing' to 'border-box' (I'd recommend just doing it on '*' for simplicity). This will prevent your padding and margin from being added on top of any widths you set as percentages; they'll be included in the box sizing instead.
Finally, I can't stress enough how important it is to get out of the mindset of things like "mobile" and "desktop". All we're talking about here is different viewport sizes. :)
If you have a live link you can share I'd be more than happy to have a proper look at this.
Add the following to your .css file:
img{max-width:100% !important}
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I'll use the following html as an example:
<div style="width:1cm; height:1cm; background-color:blue;">
</div>
When I render this html (chrome) and change the view size to samsung s8+ the square becomes tiny. However when i insert this html anywhere on most site (ex this very site), it still isn't exactly 1cm but it's at least a lot closer and it doesn't change size when changing the view size.
Is there a HTML, css or js thing i'm missing the styling is identical.
After some more testing, the core issue was that (the width of) elements wasn't scaling past 980 px, causing items to shrink when the view width was less than 980. the solution is adding the following to the header
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
this is present on most websites explaining why the problem didn't occur on other sites
source: Site's body and elements are stuck on 980px width, won't scale down
I am working on this web page: http://dev.mailagent.biz/cms/NEWS
It is responsive HTML that works fine in all browsers, all window sizes. It used to work fine on iPhones too, until iOS9 came to be. Now the whole site is broken. Extra margins (I am guessing) have been added, meaning all boxes appear to have a lot of white space. Below is a screenshot from my iPad.
I set the viewport as
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
I tried setting the margins to 0 and even to negative values, but the boxes don't move. I also tried removing any white spaces between div tags, with no change.
I am using a responsive css for all browsers: dev.mailagent.biz/cms/css/main_responsive.css
Then attaching this one specifically for iOS9: http://dev.mailagent.biz/cms/css/iOS9.css
However, most of the styles are still ignored, especially to do with margins. E.g. the iOS9 stylesheet should actually align the whole site to the left (.centeredWrapper has margin:0 not margin:auto). I know that the iOS9.css IS attached for iPhones/iPads, as e.g. some margins and colours were successfully changed in the menu across the top compared to the desktop version.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? How to I tell Safari to stop trying to be clever? Or how should I change my markup?
Try adding a shrink-to-fit to your viewport tag
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,shrink-to-fit=no">
line 281 (or 98) in main_responsive seems to be the culprit:
.content ul, .content ol, :not(.content ul.slideshowUl) { margin: 0 0 10px 30px;}
I commented that out in the Safari inspector and the whole page went back to normal.
I'm trying to optimise my website for mobiles and small screens. The website looks perfect on anything 1920x1080 and above. I'm using bootstrap and I can't figure out what's wrong with my code that is preventing the mobile scaling from working.
It seems my background 's arent scaling to the text - that is, these 's appear to be completely static and the text can just overflow past them and stack onto other parts of the page. What I want to happen is for the background colour, (white, grey, dark grey) to extend to the regions of the text on the mobile view.
Thank you in advance.
On every div you height and % (percentage). Take all those out and your site will be ok.
I also noticed the carousel is very slow at loading the pictures. If you compress each to about 200k or less it will load faster and still keep the resolution ok.
you have a <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.5">
i suggest making this to .8 or .9 or 1
the navbar menu does not adapt to mobile screens. Check the link below to see how a boostrap nav menu should be like and follow the example to create one
http://getbootstrap.com/examples/navbar/
Sections like these should have the same amount of text. So shorten the middle one out a bit, but make all sections equal to the amount of text and lines (example 3 lines or 4 lines of text) so they are responsive. A workaround will be to give a min-height to a section but i dont recomend doing that
Also the heading learning and problem solving is too long. You can change that to Learning
use the viewport meta tag, put it in your head
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
For font sizes, i prefer to use vh(viewport height) & vw(viewport width) to control sizes. That way the size will be proportional to the device view.
Be wary though. the viewport tag may cause rendering issues with height. For this, i use vh.
also, if the page is meant to fit to the screen, it may be a good idea to use "user-scalable=no" in your viewport tag. But only do that if you wish for end users to not zoom in & out.
I'm using the line
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;">
but it doesn't seem to want to actually work in dolphin or the android stock browsers.
has anyone had this experience or is viewport just not compatible with those browsers?
EDIT: I am looking to set the browser to show 100% of the page, no zoom, just page. Setting the scale does the reverse of what I need and the users need to be able to zoom.
W3C recommends this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
yes, I am aware, that it is from 2010 but I couldn't find a newer version
And it works for all androids I ever tested; also for dolphin. If you want to be really sure that even very outdated microsoft devices get it, you could also add:
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true"/>
<meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320"/>
At least it won't hurt to use all three, even though probably the last two will almost never be relevant.
EDIT: Turns out the opposite of what width=device-width does is requested. The thing is: Having zoomed out is the default behavior of every mobile browser, considering the content doesn't fit. Anything else would be counterproductive. I tried it with dolphin on various sites without any viewport-meta and it works as intended. So your content actually seems to fit, what means your documents width is indeed equal to or smaller than the device-width. That is for example the case, if you ...
... float crucial elements of your page contents
... fill your content via JavaScript (/Ajax) afterwards
... have crucial elements absolute positioned
... have negative margins on some crucial elements in your content
... have a dynamic page width, that scales to the windows width
Of course there are more possibilities. Unfortunately body { min-width: 800px; } (or whatever you want to be the min-width) is the only solution that comes to my mind, at the moment.
If your content has a static width, you could try
<meta name="viewport" content="width=980px" />
with 980px being your page width. But actually in that case, the documents width should be at least 980px anyway. So the viewport width should not be possible to achieve what you want.
I'm working on a website for a small festival for a friend, but I'm trying to work with mobile browsing WITHOUT fluid layouts, ect. It's just a website that I want to use the classic viewport script so it will be at the minimum zoom when a mobile device comes to it.
HTML
<meta name="viewport" content="450, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
That's what I have now however I have tried this way as well.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
Yet every single time I come to the site on my mobile device it's zoomed in so you can only see the logo.
What am I doing wrong?
Also there are 2 other things I've noticed when viewing on the phone.
The footer background colour doesn't stretch all the way across (and it's no different if I have device-width OR width="XXX"). Yet the width of my footer is 100%. I don't understand what is happening here.
And I'm trying to put padding, or a space to the left and right of the content so the website isn't resting right up on the side of the window. I want to have space to the left and right. I've tried to put this on the html tag but it only applies it to the left side??
I've gone to https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag & http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/viewports2.html and other websites and can't understand what might be happening in any of these cases.
Any help, advice, direction or guidance is VERY much appreciated.
To fix the background issue try adding this:
body {
min-width: 1024px;
}
You have the top sections of the page inside a container with an explicit width (960px), which is why you aren't having an issue with them. The footer however is on its own without an explicit width set. You could also just enclose it in the same div with the id 'container' you used for the rest of the page.
This should also fix your padding issue. Make sure you are adding it to the content containers. For example:
#main {
padding: 0 1.5em;
}
As for the zooming issue, I am not seeing it on an iPad or an iPhone. Since you are not doing any sort of fluidity or responsiveness this is what you should be using. What initial-scale=1 is doing is zooming it into to its actual width, not fitting it to your screen.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>
You might want to check out this question: Android ignores maximum-scale when using fixed-width viewport meta-tag for the Android issue. I don't have an Android device handy to test so I don't want to give you incorrect info on that part.