I'm trying to style a non-responsive site. It looks great on desktop. On iPhones, the content and text breaks and overlaps. I do not have a viewport set, so I assumed it would just look like the desktop version but "zoomed out" or "tiny"... I don't understand why this is happening. Please be gentle. I'm feeling pretty burnt out today ;)
Here is an example of my issue: Desktop VS iPhone Example
*Edit: ceejayoz answered this, for some reason I can't find the "answered" button.
Mobile browsers adjust text size to make it a bit more readable.
Unfortunately, it looks like you're using absolute positioning in spots, so this very helpful feature is blowing up a bit.
Putting -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100% in your CSS for those elements (or for the whole page, if you prefer) will prevent this automatic adjustment.
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I'm building a website using the Showit site builder and am getting this very frustrating bug where iOS makes the letters have wider spacing between them, causing some text boxes to overlap. It's correct on all other browsers and devices, but not iOS.
Scroll to 2nd section on here for an example (You'll need to view it on iOS and another device to see the difference.)
It's happening with a range of fonts, but mostly Canela and Red Hat Display.
I have a fairly basic knowledge of HTML and CSS so am not sure even how to start fixing it - but I can add CSS code to the builder if someone can help by finding a solution?
Thanks so much!
I've developed a responsive website, and just when I thought it was perfect and ready to launch, I found out that the images on the homepage are not displaying properly on iPhones (I developed the site while testing on an Android, so I was none the wiser about iPhone oddities until now). The images should be fitting into the width of the screen (I've set max-width: 100%; on them), but instead they are stretched and pixelated way beyond their actual resolution.
Curiously, images on any other page of the site display just fine. I thought the issue was rooted in the fact that the images on the homepage are actually set via a CSS background property, while images everywhere else are set in <img> tags in the HTML. So I commented out the "background" declarations in the CSS file and instead used <img> tags on the homepage, just like everywhere else. When I did that to the very first image, it displayed great. However, as soon as I switched the rest of the images to HTML, they all reverted back to the ugly that was present before.
My boss (who has access to an iPhone) sent me this video (apologies for it being out of focus, but you get the idea): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFJVZiBc3Q
The first four images he scrolls past ought to all fit above the fold, and you're only seeing the left ~1/10th of the actual image, that's how far it's stretched out.
I'm out of ideas here. Is there anything special I need to do for iPhones? With the <img> tag, these photos should be in the same format that the rest of the working images are in.
Thanks so much in advance!
As it turns out, it was a me-specific issue. Apologies for being vague above, I really had no idea what I should have been looking for when it came to iPhones. The images in question were contained in <div>s in which I specified a height in vh units. As a future reference for anyone reading this, you apparently shouldn't do that. Changing height to a percent unit fixed the issue, and it displays great on both Android and iPhone!
I'm a graphic designer, I have a small question, Ive learnt some of css and completed the HTML tutorial package over the internet multi time, so I have a good base of html-css coding at least, I do want to start converting PSD webdesigns into HTML-CSS, I've seen many tutorials step by step guides etc.. and they were helpful for sure but I'm afraid of many points:
The flexible point of the website, which means the following: my monitor is currently 1920x1080, let's say that I will code the website to fit on my screen and someone with a small / big screen than mine would open the site, will he see the objects moved from its original place? because defining by px is measured to fit to the user's monitor as far as I know.
Ensuring that the site will be working on at least 3 browsers plus, I know that every browser has its own css base reader and its very hard to set the website to fit all browsers especially internet explorer.
So, I don't want a special help to be honest, all I need is some points / well-guided tutorials to follow to ensure that the points I've reviewed being at least 50% solved..
What you are talking about is Responsive Web Design. Literally just search it up on the internet and you'll find tons of resources and blogs.
My tips are:
For testing multiple browsers download all of them (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE) and when you save your work (do this all the time) open it in all browsers so you know where your errors are coming from
Use the developer tools on your browsers. Chrome and Firefox have very good developer tools and help me figure our my problems. You can also use it to emulate mobile browsers and show your media queries (explained later).
Use em instead of px. pixels may look nice on your screen, but if the users screen is small they may find it hard to read your text. here is a good px to em converter http://pxtoem.com/
Use percentages. For example you can make your content div have width of 80% so that you have some space on both sides of your screen (like the design of stackoverflow). This means that your content will fit on most desktops well. Another example is a navbar, you can make it 100% wide so that it always fits the screen no matter the desktop.
Then we have media queries. These allows us to change the content based on the size of the screen. For example you can hide the navbar using a media query when a mobile user is viewing your website. Here is onc elink about media queries:http://cssmediaqueries.com/what-are-css-media-queries.html
Some people still develop for IE8 but it is a pain in the ass. You need to decide whether your audience will be using IE8. I'm guessing as a graphics designer you're going to be making a graphics blog, meaning that your audience will probably be using up to date browsers. So have a think if you really need to develop for older browsers.
As for the first point: there are some ready css frameworks, with responsive elements included. The most popular, I suppose, is Twitter Bootstrap. It has a grid system to help you make your html blocks change their width and even get hidden depending on the viewport width.
If you want to understand the techniques, you can study how media queries work.
As about cross browser stuff: you will have to test your pages in all browsers you want to support. That's the rule. On your way, this link can be useful.
The flexible point of the website, which means the following: my
monitor is currently 1920x1080, let's say that I will code the website
to fit on my screen and someone with a small / big screen than mine
would open the site, will he see the objects moved from its original
place?
The general way to get around this is to build a centered window, thus:
<html>
<div id="container">
<!-- your design lives here -->
</div>
</html>
#container
{
width:728px;
margin: auto 0;
}
Your design is now set at 728px which should fit most resolutions. You can have graphics that expand beyond this, see the bar at the top of SO, but your content should live inside this container.
Another potential solution to this is to allow you design to be completely flexible and contain all your elements in divs that float about, see Masonry for an example of a tool that helps with this.
Ensuring that the site will be working on at least 3 browsers plus, I
know that every browser has its own css base reader and its very hard
to set the website to fit all browsers especially internet explorer.
This is a bain of every web designers life. There is no substitute for good testing here. Something that will help is a CSS rest script like this one. This will remove some of the inconsistencies across browsers. But really you just need to, test and test again.
I've checked other questions on here but I haven't found anything that will help me.
Since FireFox 4 was released I've been having an issue with the menu on my website.
www.ffxivinfo.com
As you can see, the menu is supposed to fit along the little graphic buttons so that each link is on the "button". In Chrome, IE8 (not checked 9) and FireFox 3.5 this looked perfect. However since FireFox 4 it has been displaying wrong.
It looks like it's a padding issue but I can't figure out where it is coming from. I have even removed the padding between each link so that they are close together (0 padding) yet the menu still stretches further to the right in FireFox 4+ than in other browsers.
I use the auto generated menus available at purecssmenu.com and I modified it to fit my own website.
Here is a link to just the nav code, I use a PHP include to insert it.
http://www.ffxivinfo.com/nav.php
And here is a link to the CSS for it.
http://www.ffxivinfo.com/navstyle.css
Basically I need the navigation to look the same in all browsers so that it fits into the graphic "buttons". I'm tempted to just scrap the current design and go with a simple gradient background and leave the menu wider in FireFox 4+ than other browsers but that's a bit defeatist.
Any help would be much appreciated. This is the first time a coding problem has sent me to a forum asking for help but I just can't figure this one out.
I believe the problem is not in your margins but due to the differences in text rendering between the browsers. In this case, Firefox is rendering the text slightly wider.
If I might suggest an alternative, rather than using an image background and hoping for pixel-perfect rendering (which is pretty unlikely given the diversity of browsers and operating systems out there) try styling the links themselves with background-color and border-radius.
I don't see the problem in FF6. However, I see you specify your font size in pt. pt is for print, not the web. Try changing that to px and see if that fixes your situation.
I might ignore the Firefox 4 issue.
FF is now on version 6.
Your issue does not appear in FF3.5 (the most widely used FF) or FF6, both of which have more browser share than FF4.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201008-201108-bar
so I have a site that's not nearly done yet (eklinik), and its breaking on the iPad (iOS in general actually)... Things like the footer doesn't stay fixed, there's extra padding to the right, a div that's supposed to be a 100% width/height isn't, and so on so forth...
Now, I'm not asking someone else to clean up my mess (despite how nice of a thing that would be), but I am asking how can I start troubleshooting the website on the iPad...? For desktop browsers, I can always bring up the dev tools and see what's breaking where...
I do not own a mac based system, I do have an iPad though... The Dev console in the iPad is only looking for JS errors (mostly) and doesn't show anything...
Any suggestions will help... Thanks...
PS. The site is only going to run on the latest browsers:
Chrome 12+
Firefox 4+
Opera - 11+
IE 9+ (barely)
Safari 5+
If you do feel generous, and do want to point out mistakes (optional) I might have made, along with possible solutions (optionally optional), then feel free to drop me a line - abhishek#live.com.my... :-)
The question's old, but a good solution for this has come up:
Adobe Shadow
I've had quite a few clients recently that wanted their sites to be "mobile compatible" and the best solution for checking code/css on iPad is Firebug Lite:
http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
I believe you can upload and include the javascript in your site and then automatically turn it on using a simple attribute in the html tag ( see their docs for more info).
You can also install the bookmarklet in your iPad bookmarks using this method here:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/02/run-firebug-on-ipad-or-iphone/
I use it using the bookmarklet method and it works. Unfortunately it is a little hard to navigate, because it doesn't handle the touch controls very well (it has trouble distinguishing between a 'hover' and a 'click), but it's better than nothing.
Regarding your actual problem, it sounds similar to an issue I recently had on one of my sites. Did you set your viewport tag? if your site is normally 960px wide, and you have a div that is using width:100%, it will look wrong on the iPad because the window on the iPad is technically only like 600px wide. So the browser thinks width:100% is 600px instead of 960px or larger. If you set the viewport to 960px, then iPad Safari says, "oh, my browser window should be 960px (instead of 600px)," and resizes accordingly.
Hope that helps!
I use weinre to test on mobile devices, not just iPads, and it works wonders.
If you carefully test in your PC with chrome and safari as well until you get consistent results I would expect iPad or Android tablet to render "nearly" the same...
About javascript errors you should of course avoid and fix them, are you using jQuery or any other intrinsically cross browser js framework? if not, you should! :)