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
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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.
Demo
I want to make responsiveness behaviour like at this site.
There is meta viewport content set to width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, but if i resize browser vieport size by reducing its width (about 200px width and smaller), content scales proportionally and responsiveness "swithes off".
You can compare this site and jsFiddle demo with picture below. The same text with the same font-size, but scales differently.
UPD
I need to know how can i set 20px font size and it will scale proportionally like without using meta viewport. Try to make a <h1> with meta viewport and without one, you will understand what i mean
Your question is unclear, but assuming you're talking about the fact that on your demo, the content is blocking its resize after a certain minimum width:
It is important to understand the function of the meta viewport.
The viewport is the user's visible area of a web page.
The viewport varies with the device, and will be smaller on a mobile phone than on a computer screen.
-Source
This function prevents a user to zoom in or out on your website. The code you give us says that the width of your webpage must be the width of the parent viewport (equal to your browser's viewable area), that the initial zoom has to be 1 (that means no initial zoom is set) and that the maximum scale can be 1 (that means no zooming in allowed).
The fact that your website is responsive until a certain minimum width hasn't any direct link to the meta viewport.
The responsiveness of a website is based on what's called breakpoints in CSS. This gives certain CSS rules based on the viewport properties (in responsive cases: if the screen's width is between a certain minimum amount of px and a maximum amount). According to what I can understand, you actually need to set the CSS min-width attribute to your website's body like this:
body {
min-width: 300px; /*You'll have to set the value you wish here*/
}
The next thing you have to do is choose how you will handle screens smaller than 300px. There are two options after this:
You can choose to force-give your webpage the device's width and prevent horizontal scrolling but this will hide all the overflow. I personally suggest not to use this technique. For doing this, you'll need to hide all html's overflow with this CSS: html {max-width: 100vw; overflow-X: hidden;}.
The other (better) option is to give your webpage the minimum required width. This will allow horizontal scrolling and a better user experience. To do so, use this CSS code: html {min-width: 300px; overflow-X: visible;} (remember to replace 300px with your desired minimum width).
This should be all for now. Remember that there are hundreds of guides for responsive web design available. Hope your issue is solved.
The solution was simple. I needed just set body min-width
I've looked at many "mysterious white-space at bottom of page" issues here on SO, and played with the viewporttag many times, but I still cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong!
The page in question is: http://www.seniorchoicesunl.com/error_documents/error401.php
Here's what it looks like on mobile from Chrome Dev Tools:
Any Ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Edit:
setting ANY initial-scale is bad news! It makes the font too tiny!
Take a look:
The desired mobile look, while keeping the desktop and tablets as-is, is this:
P.S. Fixing this issue could reciprocally fix other related issues I'm having with other webpages.
Add this on top of your css file :)
html,body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
it fixed the bug for me.
What's going on here:
You've set width=device-width, this makes the layout size on your page equal to the device's screen width. i.e. making an element 100% will give it the same width as the screen.
Chrome infers the layout height using the width and screen's aspect ratio. i.e. height=width/aspectRatio
The sub_container_div element actually ends up being much wider than the layout width of the page. In my case on a Nexus 6, the device-width is 412px while the sub_container_div is 594px wide.
Since the content is wider than device-width, Chrome allows zooming out and loads the page at the minimum zoom level but this doesn't change the layout width/height so height 100% only fills device-width/aspect ratio pixels, which doesn't fill the zoomed out viewport.
The correct way to fix this is to make sure all your content is contained by the layout size. In your case, the reason the sub_container_div is wider than the layout size is that your padding/margins cause it to expand outside the parent. The solution is to add box-sizing: border-box to the sub_container_div and dialog elements and width: 100% to sub_container_div. That way, Chrome can't zoom out and you can't see outside the layout box (in HTML spec language, that's the initial containing block).
I had the same issue on Chrome 77
I fixed the problem by removing height: 100vh on the body tag.
This seems to fix the problem:
Change <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> to <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">.
Override width: 25em; on .sub_container_div in your mobile CSS so that the container scales with the width of the view.
If you do not want the font to scale, it seems just adding initial-scale=0 will work as well. However, this will make the text very hard to read. You can play around with different scales, but it seems just setting it will fix your issue.
In my case one element was too long for a mobile screen and it broke the webflow. After I shortened the width of the long element, the extra white screen was also removed from the footer.
When resolution lovers my background images are collapses. I tried width 100% but not worked. Here is my page and screenshot of problem.
What should I do to prevent this? a CSS2 way?
add the following class to your div id="navigation">
#navigation {
min-width: 1024px;
}
Do you mean stack down when device width is changing,
use css #media query and set diff percentage width to the container.
Do you want to make the website responsive, a better way is to use a grid system to
achieve it. such as bootstrap3 , jquery-mobile etc.
They wrote the media query for you by default. javascript also can trigger responsive
but it's heavier than pure css.
Because your site isn't responsive (Seriously? This is 2014!) You need to give the body a minimum width large enough to accommodate your content:
body {
min-width: 1030px;
}
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.