I'm trying to see if your screen is a specific amount of pixels so if it's smaller that for example 1000px
this will happen:
max-width:750;
This is the pixels on the web browser like google chrome and also will get bigger when you zoom out on google chrome if possible.
Thank you.
What you're looking for can be done with CSS3 media queries. They're a way to execute CSS only under certain conditions. Here's the MDN article, too.
Your media query might look like this:
#media (max-device-width : 1000px) {
/* CSS */
}
max-width is the width of the target display area, ex:Google Chrome
max-device-width is the width of the device's entire rendering area, ex:the mobile device screen
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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
I apologize if I sound vague/ abrupt.
The web page should be in tune with the browser size. I mean if the browser size is reduced/ shrunk, the full web page should also shrink and should be visible in the shrunk browser window. Is this possible ?
You will need to use media queries for a responsive layout in your css
Example:
#media screen and (max-width: 699px) and (min-width: 300px) {
<css template for 300 to 699 px width goes here>}
You can also use bootstrap (a responsive framework which has predefined classes for what you may need) for a faster implementation.
I was searching about how to make your webpage fits any screen resolution and I found that most answers prefer using % over Pixels. I found that this is correct when I viewed the code of this website http://zcsfestival.com/
you can find objects overlap in mobile resolution or when you don't maximize the window of your browser. However, when I read the code of this site http://m3adikawmia.eb2a.com/?ckattempt=1
I found that it uses Pixels and it fits any screen resolution also when I restore the browser window down. It seems perfect. I became confused about that and I want any clarification about this point.
Thanks in advnace,
One way is to define elements with % . But some times the elements will be to small in mobile resolution that it is necessary to define different CSS codes for different resolutions. Like this:
normal situation:
.container {width: 1000px;}
responsive:
#media only screen and (max-width:800px) {
/* redefining some element sizes like the example: */
.container {width:100%;}
}
And this way will continue till mobile resolution.
When i read about responsive design, people always seam to use this statement:
#media screen and(max-width: )
But mobile phones today seem to have really great resolution (often more than pc), whats the best way to detect small devices?
Thx ;=)
The screen resolution does not matter. The value used in media queries is the device width. For example:
My phone has a screen with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels. When held upright (in portrait mode) the width is 720px, but since it is an HD screen, it has a 200% ratio, and the resulting device width is 360px. This is the value used in media queries:
/* Even though my phone has a screen width of 720px… */
#media screen and (max-width: 360px) {
/*
* This code will apply
*/
}
#media screen and (min-width: 361px) {
/*
* This code will not apply
*/
}
The general rule is that phones in portrait mode have a device width less or equal to 400px, regardless of how many actual pixels their screen contains.
You can't directly query physical size.
You can, however, perform a media-type query for DPI along with Height and Width.
Example
#media(resolution: 326dpi) and (device-width: 640) and (device-height: 1136) {
// Iphone 5s
}
This should be a good starting point: List of displays by pixel density
Physical pixels and CSS pixels are not the the same on retina/HD mobile displays.
Research the viewport meta tag for information on device-width. i.e. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> is the CSS pixel width scaled at 100%.
See Viewport Device-Widths for a list of common mobile screen sizes.
When you are doing responsive design, you don't actually "detect" the screen size, rather you "target" various size using CSS Media Queries.
If you are using a library like Modernizer for example, that's when you are actually doing detection for various properties.
I'm using a CSS Media Query to adjust the look of my page if it is very narrow. In my simplified example, if the page is less than 300px wide, I'll make the background blue.
#media all and (max-width: 300px) {
body{ background-color:blue;}
}
I recently discovered that if the user zooms (Ctrl+Scrollwheel or on Chrome Wrench>Zoom) that the max-width will still kick in at 300 actual pixels, not 300 zoomed pixels. This can break sites with more sophisticated layouts. Is there any way for the max-width media query to handle users with zoomed browsers?
I've experimented around and it seems that you can use media queries for a zoom, however in a Webkit browser you must define the viewport.