I'm making a fairly simple website, and i'm having some trouble due to being new to this. I have it so it's a responsive website, but adding links to websites that are a bit long wont automatically chunk into smaller sections to fit on the screen, but just run off the screen and out of the container.
What do i need to do to make it so my links scale responsively on mobile devices with the rest of my website? The rest of the paragraph acts responsively based on the screen size, but if i add a link that is somewhat long, it will just run straight off the screen since there are no spaces for it to use as a break. How can i fix this? text-overflow?
Thanks.
I'm assuming you mean that a very long string (without spaces) is causing this problem.
Use the CSS word-wrap property.
a {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
See here for more information.
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I have been teaching myself front end web development for a while now and have taken on several client projects with good success so far. I am currently working on the site www.thrivetech.com and having an issue. There are 3 text columns with images above each on the home page of this site, and I cannot come up with a good way to make them all stay the same height. At different screen widths these 3 columns change height and sometimes don't match. Squarespace objects are natively responsive, and when the screen gets small enough these 3 columns stack on eachother and look fine. I have added a lot of Custom CSS to change background colors, text colors, etc. but can't figure out how to make this work. Even if I remove ALL CSS and just have a plain white page with black text, these columns still do this and don't stay the same height. I have even contacted Squarespace support and they haven't come up with a solution. See image below:
I would include some CSS source, but it's best to navigate to the site at thrivetech.com and inspect the CSS to see what is going on. I have considered doing something like using JS and jQuery to get the height of all 3 of these, determine which is the greatest, then set the height of all 3 to the greatest height, but it seems like there should be an easier, more elegant pure CSS solution?? Thanks for looking!
RESOLVED:
I fixed the issue by using a media query to set the parent element of these 3 columns to display: flex; when the window is at least 640px wide. The reason I need the media query is because they need to display as blocks when the window gets smaller so we can take advantage of Squarespace's native responsive design so the columns will stack on top of eachother on mobile and smaller screens. Here's some simple pseudocode:
#media only screen and (min-width: 640px) {
#parentDiv { display: flex; }
}
I am first year student Software Engineering and I use to have an assignment to make a web page. It is not complicated at all but after writing the web page I realised that when you open the site in smaller resolution (than mine 1080p) device it doesn't fit very well. I don't know what resolution uses the teacher who is going to assess me so i want to modify the site for 1600;900 and 1336:768 at least.
I should say that I used other suggestions that I should divide div tags by % not by pixels but it still doesnt work.
I googled the problem and I think I found a solution - actualy it is something with #media where you can set different percentages for different screen resolutions in advance and then you get the cliend screen resolution and open it in appropriate proportions
So I wanted to ask you how exactly to write this?
P.s you could take a look at my webpage here
The answer really depends on how intricate your site is, what the layout looks like, and what elements need to do at what sizes.
In general, HTML is "fluid" by default, so text will wrap, and elements will resize to fit their contents, so if your design is simplistic, you shouldn't have to do anything.
When you start sizing things with absolute/static pixel sizes, you get yourself into situations where things no longer fit.
You should generally avoid making designs that are fixed pixel sizes, and allow for elements to re-size naturally as HTML is designed to do.
#media queries are appropriate for changing appearances at specific resolutions, and are generally set up to make "responsive" designs, where elements can change styling or be hidden/shown at different resolutions. This is usually used for more complicated or dynamic layouts, and still needs to be planned for accordingly, because it is usually set up to accommodate a range of resolutions. For example an element might be 100% wide from 0 to 1024 pixels wide, and become 50% wide when the window is over 1024 pixels wide.
In the case of your web site, you are sort of breaking it by floating everything left. float tends to be really over-used in CSS without understanding its side effects.
Remove width from your menu element, and remove width and float from your content element.
This will cause the menu to be as wide as its contents (the buttons) and "float" next to the contents, which will try to be 100% wide, but be narrowed to allow the menu to fit next to it.
Good luck in school you will need to read up on responsive design which you acheave via CSS.
eg.
#media screen and (min-width: 500px) {
// Write your style
}
#media screen and (min-width: 501px){
// Write your style
}
That is what you need to do, there is lot of documentation and tutorials on this you will have no problem finding the resources.
Here is a TutsPlus page to get you started: Tutorial link
Okay so I am trying to get my website to fit all resolutions or screen sizes because I am currently working on a 17" 1920x1080 screen size and my website looks fine but when i try run it on a 10" or 15" screen etc the website screws up, the content goes everywhere (mainly drops down) So I was wondering how this can be fixed?
Thanks
First of all you should use percentage values (e.g. width:20%; instead of width:200px;) whenever you can, so you don't rely on absolute pixel resolutions (which often screw up your whole design/layout).
For all the other things and tuning you should take a look onto the css media query (e.g. w3schools):
#media screen and (min-width:1024px) {
/* ... */
}
It sounds like your web content isn't being positioned relative to a fixed width parent container, because if it was a scrollbar would load rather than your containers being pushed down. If you want to make the website layout respond to the screen size then you'll need to use a responsive layout.
Here's more info on getting started with responsive design/development:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_responsive_intro.asp
You can also look at using a framework which is really good for learning responsive grid lay outs (and much more). Bootstrap is one of the most popular mobile first responsive frameworks:
http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/default.asp
http://getbootstrap.com/
You could dive in learning few things:
Relative Lengths
Flexbox
Media Queries
I 've created a site using Dreamweaver, and all my images have absolute position with % metrics. it expands proportionally on wider screens, but everytime I try to resize and shrink browser window it just becomes a mess with all the images fallen in one narrow window. How can I rebuild my design so it shrinks in a browser window in a way that when it is too small for an element, it just wouldn't fit. Do I have to use fixed pos-ing or any other type of pos-ing? Whats the usual way web designers do the sites?
P.S. my site contains text and abs. images, as well as fixed image that scrolls with the screen. What should I use to keep it that way but make a decent view in all screen sizes?
Use media queries or place a min-width on either the body or the element in question. For example placing min-width:900px on the body will stop the entire body from re-sizing below 900px width. (Note: That is not the responsive way to do things. Media queries are a much better practice)
I have an HTML page that is using Bootstrap to show a weather forecast. This page is ultimately going to be shown inside of an iframe, so it has fixed dimensions. When the width is >= 768px, I want the images to show horizontally. This works fine when you make the browser wider. When the width is <768px, I want the images to stack themselves and shrink so that all of the text and images fit within the dimensions of the iframe. This is where I'm having trouble.
Here's my fiddle. I've used a parent div with fixed dimensions to simulate the iframe, and set its background color to show where the content overflows its parent. What should be showing is the day, followed by the image, followed by the high / low temperature beneath the image. This should then be repeated for Saturday and Sunday. Instead, the content is overflowing its container and being cut off. Also, the text is not showing in the proper order. I want to fix this while still ensuring that the horizontal images don't break when the browser is wider.
It's a bit confusing for me i guess as I'm still unable to understand your question completely. But is that what you are looking for?
http://jsfiddle.net/ALkKB/15/
#media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
#iframe{width:100%; height:auto;}
}
I appreciate all of your help San. I ended up eliminating the use of Bootstrap and just implemented my own CSS media queries based on the orientation of the iframe. I also had to use some Javascript to calculate how much room was left for the images once all of the other data was loaded and displayed.
Thanks again.