In this simplified HTML, I have a fixed div that is meant to be the exact width of the window. But there is also a very long word in the content above the div that messes up the layout.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1">
<style>
div {
position: fixed;
left: 0;
right: 0;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><p>Veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongword</p>
<div><b>0%</b><b>25%</b><b>50%</b><b>75%</b><b>100%</b></div>
</body>
</html>
It looks as if the long word causes the "viewport" to stretch to be wider than the window, so the div (fixed to the viewport) ends up being wider than the window.
Now this only happens on mobile devices, even using Chrome Dev Tools. In Desktop mode, all is fine:
But change to Mobile and the fixed div stretches:
So two questions:
How can I prevent the div from stretching wider than the window?
What is Chrome Dev Tools doing differently when I switch to Mobile view?
1) I've managed to fix all the issues I can create with your code by:
p {
max-width: 100vw;
overflow: hidden;
}
2) Chrome does very strange things with the width of that div as I mess with the css and refresh the page. It does not render at all consistently even with the same css. In fact, I have two tabs open that show the page differently from the same code in the same file, even while refreshing. I think the behavior of a div when smaller than the viewport may be unspecified, and you must use something like my solution to tell Chrome what to do.
this problem is caused by justify-content: space-between. You dont actually set a width, and different things add different amounts of spacing.
If you were to set a width for the div like this: width: 300px, the width wouldn't change on mobile or pc.
So i have a ridiculous problem, that ought to be obvious and simple yet I can't seem to find out what the problem is.
I have a div on a page that uses bootstrap.
The code for that div is as follows:-
.appSection{
background-color: #000000;
padding:20px;
border:1px solid #67c1dd;
margin-bottom: 30px;
display: block;
width: 100%;
min-height: 450px;
}
Its a child of a div wrapper col-md-12.
This display fine in most browsers I've used; however, when the div does not contain much content or text at the head of the div, on the iPad the div collapses as shown in the right side of the attached image. Sometimes it can literally be collapsed almost completely to the right of the underlying menu.
Any clues?
You haven't given us enough information to go off. If we could see a sample of you html and css that would be great.
If you are reviewing it on iPad in portrait, then your "col-md-12" class on the parent div is not being applied, as that starts at 992px. That is probably 'part' of your problem. It's not the root cause though. but with nothing else to go on, try changing it to "col-xs-12" and see if that fixes it.
I've found the problem.
I had this meta tag at the top of my page, when I removed it, the problem was resolved:-
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
I wrote width: 100%, but it doesn't fill all the width. What's the problem? This is the website I'm talking about can be found here.
currently, .adfon looks like this:
.adfon {
background-color: #D6ECF4;
height: 470px;
width: 100%;
display: block;
}
change the width:100%; to min-width:1100px;
To get your footer working, apply the same concept I explained and it should work.
Some parts of your body have CSS specified at a width of 1100px instead of a percentage. A percentage width references the container that it sits in. In this case, the problem area is contained directly in the body. The body's width is only the width of the window, not the width of the contents on your site, which seems to be set to a width of 1100px;
Your site is not adaptive, but you use:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
These values for adaptive sites only. In your case better to use something like this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1100"/>
P.S. width: 100% with display: block do nothing in any case.
The width of my page is too wide, so that you can scroll to the right and it will pass all the page elements. Here's a screenshot:
The black part is the footer, as you can see, you can scroll right past it.
I have used overflow-x: none; to prevent horizontal scolling, however you can still scroll this way by holding down the middle mouse button and scrolling.
How can I confine my pagewidth? Setting it to 100% will make it native to the screen's resolution; however for some reason it has gone past that. Thanks in advance!
If I have understood you right, you should be able to do this in your css:
body {
width: /*the width you want*/;
}
I maybe understood you wrong or maybe I didn't!
Edit:
Try adding this to your <head>:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
I hope you guys can help me cause I cant seem to wrap my head arroud this. I build a one-page site which works fine, except for one thing, which is the overflow-x:hidden on the tablet viewport (and probably smartphone too, havent tested that yet)
Despite the body having body {overflow-x:hidden;} which works fine within normal browsers on the pc, i am able to move to the side for about 25 pixels or so, cause thats the overflow of my rotated div, that sticks out of the screen, which i wanted to hide.
Is there a way to fix this? I supplied below part of the head and html / css
The viewport meta tag.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
The CSS applied to the media queries and they respective elements that overflow
#media only screen and (max-width: 992px){
#skills, #experience {overflow-x:hidden;}
}
#media (max-width: 479px){
body {overflow-x:hidden;}
}
And the regular CSS applied to the html / body tags
body, html {height: 100%;width: 100%;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color: #757575; overflow-x:hidden;}
The id's #skills and #experience have a class called .hoek which is defined as followed and causes the overflow.
.hoek {margin: 0 -50px;
-webkit-transform-origin:left center;
-moz-transform-origin:left center;
-o-transform-origin:left center;
-ms-transform-origin:left center;
margin-top: -175px;
-webkit-transform:rotate(5deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(5deg);
-o-transform:rotate(5deg);
-ms-transform:rotate(5deg);
z-index: 20;
}
I must point out, I think, that the #skills and #experience are sections and not divs. I am not sure if that might be a problem within the code, but I thought not. If there is anymore information that is needed, please let me know, but I thought I had covered the bases here.
I dont know where to begin with a fiddle, so I supply you just the test link of the site: http://www.jellyfishwebdesign.nl/Joost/index.php
Found the answer actually here on Stack overflow:
The browsers on mobile devices ignore the overflow-x:hidden within the body and html tag if <meta name="viewport"> tag is present, thus i created a wrapper in the body tag covering the rest of my content with a overflow-x: hidden in it, solving the problem.
Documentation:
Overflow-x:hidden doesn't prevent content from overflowing in mobile browsers.
The bad thing is that it prevents the use now of a jquery plugin, that scrolls....
Try setting minimum-scale=1 instead of maximum-scale=1.
minimum-scale controls how far out the user can zoom, while maximum-scale controls how far in they can zoom. To prevent viewing of the overflow you need to limit the user's ability to zoom out, not in.
I had this same problem and tried applying body with overflow-x: hidden;, and lots of other answers, but what did work in my Wordpress, was applying a global CSS rule as below.
body, html {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
This eliminates the movement left to right on mobiles.
The HTML part is needed, not just body!
As pointed out by Dorvalla, body and html tags are ignored by smartphones browsers, although not by "big screen" browsers, I solved the issue by using the first child of the page structure, so no need of an aditional wrapper.
e.g. for my WordPress case:
.site {
overflow-x: hidden;
/* Unnecessary IMHO, uncomment next line to force hidden behavior */
/* overflow-x: hidden !important; */
/* Additional tunning proposed by the community */
position: relative;
width: 100%;
}
Try setting minimum-scale=1 instead of maximum-scale=1 or initial-scale=1.
eg.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0">
if you applied overflow-x:hidden to the body, you might wanna apply to html too.
body,html {
overflow-x:hidden;
}
My analysis as of September 2021. Tested on Safari and Firefox 37 (iOS 15).
The accepted answer and its SO link are pretty old (2013-2014) and do not seem valid any more.
Also, I find that adding a "wrapping" div on my body is not really elegant and could lead to unexpected behaviour.
The page on which I am working on is pretty simple, there is just one background image that might overflow on the right of the screen for smaller screens.
Applying minimum-scale=1 to the viewport meta tag did not work. This prevents zooming out, but I could still have this ugly scroll on the right.
Applying overflow-x: hidden; on <html> only did not work.
Applying overflow-x: hidden; on <body> only did not work.
Applying overflow-x: hidden; on both <html> & <body> did work.
This can be resolved without needing to include minimum-scale=1. While that property does prevent the user from zooming and scrolling out, it doesn't resolve the issue of the horizontal scrollbar still appearing, regardless of the fact that the user can't use it.
The way I resolved this issue was by having the following viewport.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Next, you need to make sure that your html and body elements have the following properties...
html {
...
overflow-x: hidden;
}
body {
...
position: relative;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
These properties should make it so that any type of horizontal overflow doesn't show, nor will the horizontal scrollbar be present. This also allows you to lock page-scroll in case of a modal or some other reason on both mobile and desktop by simply passing overflow: hidden to the html element.
If you are using tailwind css in next js and you are using a function to display or hide the sidemenu then it will works for you.
const toggleCart = () => {
if (ref.current.classList.contains("hidden")) {
ref.current.classList.remove("hidden");
ref.current.classList.add("translate-x-0");
} else if (!ref.current.classList.contains("hidden")) {
ref.current.classList.add("hidden");
}
};
Set the sidebar or your div initially hidden and will works fine in your phone. Don't use translate-x-full. It will cause the overflow in mobile device in my case
I found that applying:
overflow-x: hidden
to the div wrapper inside the body made the scrolling a little jumpy on iOS Safari so therefore just gave it overflow: hidden and left the body as visible. This worked perfect for me in all browsers and devices I needed.
Even though you are creating a parent container to apply the overflow: hidden; , the overflow property will not work on position: absolute;. Because position absolute moves the targeted element out of context with the document structure.
It has to be position: relative;
Had the same kind of problem with a toggle menu for mobile users, put it off screen so it would appear when the user clicked on the menu bar, solved applying overflow-x:hidden to my section tag.