I have a website that I made (without bootstrap or any or that stuff, and I am having an issue trying to scale everything down for people with a smaller screen resolution. basically I'll want it to detect the size, and apply appropriate CSS classes to elements to scale everything down if under a specific width. Right now I am just trying to build the CSS classes, and I am having some difficulties. The closest I've gotten is shrinking all the content down using:
transform: scale(.75);
That works awesome on the actual content for resizing, but I'm left with a large padded field around the content. a bit hard to explain, but what I want is for the content to shrink, but the divs to still be 100% of the browser (so if there is a smaller browser it fits nicely without this stupid large padded area around the content)
Here is how it normally looks:
image!
and here is how it looks with the added CSS transform:image2!
Any ideas for how to overcome this would be greatly appreciated, Also note I really don't care about my solution not working in IE9 or lower!
The basic output that I want is the equivelent of shrinking the browser zoom to 75% if that helps..
Depending on how your CSS is written, something as simple as this could work:
#media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
body {font-size: 85%;}
}
If you have divs with em widths that will shrink their width, but you could change that via the media query above, perhaps setting their widths to 100% etc.
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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
This is a follow-up question to one I asked before:
"CSS - elements position when the window size changes".
The issue was - How to avoid the elements from being pushed aside when the screen gets smaller.
The answer was - use static width.
Static width indeed solves the problem, however it causes another problem (now we get to my follow-up question):
Let's say I use a picture as a background for the headline of the site and another one for the footer.
On the one hand I want them to always take the whole screen width but on the other hand I don't want them to be pushed aside when the window displaying the site gets smaller.
Using static width will cause different display in different browsers or in different versions of the same browser - will not always take the whole width. (there isn't one static width value that is good for all cases)
Using width: 100% seems to be the solution but then I find myself where I began.
How can I accomplish both?
Thanks.
This is the reason that we have css media queries and max-width, max-height attributes
Media queries allow you to change the css depending on how big the screen size is. Plus they can do a lot more.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
What I would do is design your site with max-width: someamount, and width: 100%. Once your finished, then worry about making it look better on smaller screens.
Designers usually go one of two ways when designing a responsive website. Either design for desktop size screen first, then adjust for the smaller sized screens towards the very end. OR design for mobile sized screens first and then the larger screens towards the very end.
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.
I'm not a very talented web designer, so I'm having trouble to make my webpage stay in tact when the browser changes its size. It gets all messy and it looks awful.
When the browser is at its full size, the page looks fine.
This is how it looks like before re-sizing the browser:
And this is how it looks after making the browser smaller:
This happens only when you re-size the browser horizontally.
This is my CSS: http://pastebin.com/SfKT0Eth
I can't figure out my mistake since I'm not very good in HTML/CSS. That's not my area so I'm lacking the knowledge to figure this out myself.
I would appreciate your help.
EDIT
I fixed the problem with the sidebar and the dark content space. What I'm failing to achieve is prevent the upper menu (top-nav) items to fall down when the screen gets small.
I simply changed this in #sidebar:
width: 270px;
to
width: 19%;
http://jsfiddle.net/J3jm7/3/
Hi just i see your fiddle ... there are a few problems:
Number one you're setting the width with % this takes it in relation with the browsers size, you can set min-width and max-wdith to avoid this problem.
Try to put first in your html the box that is float:left and after the box float:right
I don't understand why you use postion:absolute for the outer div.
View this demo with your Fiddle fixed http://jsfiddle.net/J3jm7/15/
First of all you should really make a Jsfiddle with your question as with css alone I can't really see what is going on.
Now as far as I can see you are using absolute values for width in some elements. You should take a look at using % values. Also you should look into media queries through css. For example your side bar would be better if it was hidden or position below your main window when the browser gets really small width.
You could achieve something like that by using something like
#media screen and (max-width: 800px){
#sidebar {
display:none;
}
This would hide the sidebar if the browser window get resized below 800px width
or
#media screen and (max-width: 800px){
#sidebar {
float:none;
width:100%
}
This would have the sidebar get below your main window and size it to the full width of its parent element if the browser window get resized below 800px width
The media queries should of course coexist with your rest of css
Ah, I see you've added a fiddle. well if you want to keep your sidebar at 270px width you could do this with the container
.container {
width: calc(100% - 275px);
...
...
}
Very simply speaking it is hard to debug without a staging URL to look at. Anyway, your issue is because you are not using fluid development practices. Maybe try to google up how to develop fluid development. The idea is to use % and em and a base css font size. Also, you may wanna look at bootstrap3.
Looks like you are coming in on the ground floor. The best resource to getting started in this area is Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte. Check it out here: http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design
On this template I've built using Foundation, everything looks correct and responsive except for both navigation bars. They're both on their own <div class="row">, yet they overlap eachother on window resize.
(There is a #media only screen and (max-width: 767px) that is supposed to make it look even cleaner, if it helps at all).
Actually if you open the page on chrome with the developer tools or in firefox with firebug, you can see that when you make the page smaller than 767px width, is when the problems enters, due your #media only screen and (max-width: 767px). i would recommend to check that css cause if you removed it from the html you get a better result, so you may check what attributes inside that css are making your div crazy.
try adding foundation.css (around line 148) .row class height to 140px and moving main-links somewhere inside top of the main-content? That code seriously need either playing around with heights/margin or div blocks imo :)
Edit: roughly editing foundation.css lines is not what you need, make separate css class for that specific height setting and trigger usage of it with correct media query (width which causes problem to occur). That way you can tune any classes you like around the top navigation, its not pretty but it gets things work.
As Jorge Aguilar said, the problem lied in a float: none that was applied to every <li>. Furthermore, I used a width: 100% property to stretch the elements across the entire screen (like it originally was with the floats, but without the overlapping)