IMG centers horizontally on PC but not on phone - media queries - html

I have this page, it only has an image on it right now but since I'm pretty new to this I thought that would be enough. On a normal desktop screen, I want the image to be left-aligned. And that's how it is. But when it's in portrait mode, and the max-width is 480px, I want the image to be centered, horizontally.
My code is:
#media (max-width: 480px)
{
img
{
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
}
Now, the above code works great on the computer. When my PC is in landscape mode and the max-width is greater than 480px, the image is left-aligned. And when I put my PC in Portrait and Shrink the browser window's width to less than 480px the image becomes centered.
But this does not work on my phone. My phone's width is 480px. Why isn't is working then? I don't understand.

This will help (it did for me) - http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/combining_meta.html.
Viewports, widths and device widths are confusing - with multipliers, and other things in place - this article seemed to explain them.

What about putting
text-align:center;
On the parent wrapper?
http://jsfiddle.net/lharby/6y4E4/
And combine that with setting max-widths in the media query?

Just a thought, try having the page detect the device that is being used and run different code for desktops and mobiles? not sure how it would work since I am fairly new to this myself, but I have seen others do it.

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How to get CSS media attributes to work on mobile devices?

I have written some HTML and CSS for a website, and some media queries to reformat the code when the screen shrinks. This works on browsers, when I shrink the browser window size, but isn't working on mobile devices. Can anyone think of why? See the Media CSS below:
#media screen and (max-width:500px) {
#education-table td {
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
}
Thanks in advance!
I have looked at similar issues and thus added the "screen and", but this has not fixed the issue.
Update: I am testing the code on a pixel 7. When resizing the browser to the same width as my phone it works perfectly. I have ensured my phone width is indeed below 500px. TO clarify, this code works when used on a browser where I have both emulated a pixel 5 (through dev tools on edge) as well as just resizing the browser window. However, when I load the same site on my pixel 7 (and a pixel 6a, + Samsung galaxy a30) this CSS does not kick in, and it loads the standard "desktop" CSS styling - so the columns of tables do not collapse and are impossible to read
This code is valid CSS and works like intended. It just applies to devices with screens smaller than 500px. I would recommend you to set the size to something higher like 768px.
The screen and just ensures that the style is only applied to normal screens and not the print-view or anything else.
As others mentioned, your code is correct and should work on mobiles, it just depends on their screen size.
If you want to reformat your layout for mobiles in portrait orientation independently of their screen width, you might want to consider the following:
#media screen and (orientation: portrait) {
#education-table td {
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
}
Solved it!
I needed to add this line to the HTML document -->
It was not linking the device width before I added this meta tag. Thanks for the help from you all

How to Work with Responsive Fonts when reducing Screen size

I am looking for help in regards to a new website that I have built. I have been building Joomla sites for the last 6 months but this is my first site that I am trying to make responsive based on the media queries that I have added.
The site that I have built can be found at the following:
[http://s116169771.websitehome.co.uk/blingphones_j3/]
I have built media queries for the following sizes:
768px,
600px,
568px,
480px,
400px,
320px
What I have noticed is that I still have issues with some sizes, for example when I view the site on my Samsung S6 the max size for this screen is 640px, so this was causing me issues with a 'box' image that had used which was a png.
I have since changed this into an svg file so that it resizes in accordance to the screen size that I am on. The following is my CSS:
#media (max-width: 767px) and (min-width: 601px) {
#mainbox {
float: left;
position: relative;
background: url(../images/box.svg) no-repeat;
background-size:contain;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}
I have also made sure that the text within the boxes has a width of 100% so this resizes with the box.
The problem I now have is rather than adding more breakpoints, I need to ensure the heading on the page 'WE FIX BROKEN, DAMAGED MOBILE PHONES' resizes like how the box and the text within the box does.
Unfortunately when I am resizing the screen from 767px to 601px I notice a gap appearing under the mobile phone image and I am not sure how to fix this to be honest.
I have looked through the Firefox Developer Tools but just cant figure this out. I also have the font sizes as em and thought this would work in the same way as the svg but this isn't the case.
My current site has been built using the latest version of Joomla 3.8.4.
Would really appreciate some advice on where I am going wrong and what I need to consider to ensure when resizing the page is displayed correctly without adding any more breakpoints.
Sheraz, just to confirm the template already has the bootstrap framework as part of its build. The following is the code in my index.php file.
JHtml::_('bootstrap.framework');
I have read you question and i think the easy and best way of making a website responsive is through bootstrap. In bootstrap there are pre-defined classes you can use to make that thing responsive
For example: To make a image responsive use img-responsive class so it will resize itself according to the screen.
<img src="source" class="img-responsive" width=100% height=500px/>
Except this bootstrap contains grid system you can align them easily.
I hope this will help you
One thing that I notice with your media query styling of text inside the .boxestext1 div is that at narrow viewports, the text is too wide for the actual space, and it overflows the box.
One suggestion is that if you replace your current CSS
#media (max-width: 480px){
div.boxestext1 {
...
margin: 0 32px 0 32px;
width: 373px;
...
}
}
with something like the following, it will scale better at smaller viewports.
#media (max-width: 480px){
div.boxestext1 {
...
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
...
}
}
If you want good results on mobile you can never be too careful about hardcoding widths and other units.
Good luck!

Website not resizing properly across resolutions. Media query or percentages?

New to CSS, HTML and Java but about to finish my first website. Apologies if this has been answered before but I've been driving myself crazy for days trying to solve this issue.
I created my site in 1366 x 768 and therefore tailored the max-width/height accordingly, but since testing the site on a Macbook air (resolution 1440x900), I'm having issues with resizing and white space around the content.
I updated max-width to 1440 which seemed to have sorted the horizontal white space, but the space beneath my footer remains no matter what I do.
Is there a way to resize up and down with resolutions? Are media queries the answer or am I gonna have to go back and redesign my site?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can use this style:
#media screen and (min-device-width: 1366px) {
}
I suggest you to use bootstrap grid if you are not very familiar with responsive design. Each divgets from .col-md-1 class. (The sum is equal to 12).
With this Grid System you can see the elements in each resolutions fine.
in the CSS you can add multiple #media screen sizes and set padding and margins according to the size of the device they are using. for example the website im working on at the moment has different styling for 3 different device sizes.
#media (min-width: 1366px) {
body{
width: 100%;
clear: left;
white-space: nowrap;
}
}
Something like this could be helpful

Strange gap on the right in mobile view. How to set aspect ratio so that the logo is in centre on every screen size

I am building a website for our studio and i came to a problem. That when i view the website on the mobile device i get a very strange gap on the right.
The website is here: www.rawstudio.ee
And print screen. - http://rawstudio.ee/img/ptscren.PNG
Second issue that i have is that when people who have wide but not high screens with aspect ratio for example 21:9 come on the website the logo goes very down and is not on the centre of there screen. The logo does not move in relation with the aspect ratio and is displayed to low. How can i fix it?
This is due to your media queries not catching the logo when it reaches a certain size.
You just need to make a slight amendment in the css for the logo once the page reaches 370px or less and also to its container.
#logo {
width: 100%;
}
#media (max-width:370px) {
#logo img {
max-width: 100%;
}
}
the strange gap is caused by the logo image, it's too large.
I suggest responsively resizing it with #media.
You can debug for mobile devices using google chrome's Device Mode
Image
As for the second part of your question, if you increase the margin-top to 50% of the #logo img tag, again with (multiple stacked) media queries, you'd probably get the result you want, but I don't think it's the correct way to do it.

Responsive image scaling with changing max-height

It's far simpler to point to an example than to try and explain the problem I am trying to solve so I'll do just that (apologies to people on mobile, this won't work...)
The effect I want to achieve can be seen on VICE news (http://news.vice.com)
As you can see while resizing the browser, the aspect ratio of the image remains intact throughout certain sizes. It jumps at 1200px and again at 700px, all the while scaling both the width and the height.
Is there a way to achieve this using only CSS? My head is stuck on this one.
Thanks!
Media queries, of course.
If you look in their source code, you will see that they have 3 different versions of the same image to display at each different size (to minimize scaling). Then, by using media queries, they will display the proper one and have its width fill the page:
Here's the mobile image, for example:
#media only screen and (min-width: 43.75em)
{
.lede .lede-images img.mobile
{
display: none;
}
}
And here's the global code:
.lede .lede-images img.mobile
{
width: 100%;
}
Setting the width to 100% while not setting the height will automatically maintain the aspect ratio while resizing.