I am trying to accomplish something a bit strange. I am working on a mobile-responsive website where in most of the pages all of the content fits inside the viewport so there is no overflow or scrollbars in most scenarios. This looks perfect when viewed on a desktop screen but I really want the tactile feeling of touch scrolling when viewed in portrait on mobile devices, as the page being completely static feels odd on a mobile website. I was thinking of just adding some blank space below the viewport by setting the 'bottom' attribute of my footer to a minus offset value like so:
#footer {
bottom: -20px;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
}
This sort of accomplishes what I am looking for and enables scrolling with the extra dead space but after scrolling up and down a couple of times, a blank white space that I assume is the height of the footer appears that is not covered by the pages background styles (which is applied to the page's body tag).
Is there any way of accomplishing what I am looking to achieve cleanly without modifying the rest of the page's content?
Thanks
I am creating a responsive website, and have just noticed a strange behaviour in my content pages when viewed on the iPhone. It scales correctly when loaded in portrait mode, and also when rotated to landscape. However, when rotating back to portrait the page seems to shift left, or not zoom correctly, and there is a strip of white space down the right-hand side. This white space also seems to be present on first loading in portrait as the user can swipe the page left
Rather than complicating the explanation any further, here's a link to a sample page where this behaviour is occurring. Have a look on an iPhone, then have a look at the home page which does not have this issue.
If you need to see anything further, just me know :)
Fixed it! The issue was coming from one particular div - to find it, it was a process of deleting the different elements until the issue went away.
To fix it I needed to add overflow-x: hidden to that div and it sorts it out! Hope this is useful to others with a similar issue.
I had the same problem, I fixed it by setting:
html, body { width:100%; overflow:hidden; }
This problem occurs when width of any division is greater than the width of iPAD's screen.
In my case, some divisions were having size of 1000px, so I just went for width:auto and it works. overflow-x:hidden also does the same thing, but is not a preferred way.
I don't have an iphone to test this on but I have come across something similar with websites I've created in the past. In my case its because there was a bug in safari mobile that messed with the scale when going from port to land.
The following code fixed it for me (can't remember where I got it from at the moment)
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)) {
var viewportmeta = document.querySelectorAll('meta[name="viewport"]')[0];
if (viewportmeta) {
viewportmeta.content = 'width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0';
document.body.addEventListener('gesturestart', function() {
viewportmeta.content = 'width=device-width, minimum-scale=0.25, maximum-scale=1.6';
}, false);
}
}
Using "overflow-x: hidden" solves part of the problem, but screws the scroll, acting with strange behaviors (as Jason said).
Sometimes, the hardest part is to discover what is causing the problem. In my case, after a few hours, if found that the problem was in Twitter's Bootstrap:
If you're using Twitter's Bootstrap with "control-group" zones for your forms, the problem could be there. In my case i solved the problem with:
.control-group .controls {
overflow-x: hidden
}
Now the white space on the right was gone :)
I'd like to add to Navneet Kumar's solution because it worked for me. Any div tag styled with width=100% cannot also have left or right padding. The mobile browsers (I noticed the problem on iPhone and Android devices) interpret the div as having a width greater than 100%, thereby creating the extra space on the right side. (I knew this regarding fixed widths, but not percentage widths.) Instead, use width=auto in conjunction with padding.
I know it's a while since this topic was opened but I came across a similar situation and found it was because I had an element with the following properties right: -999999px; position: absolute; hidden off screen.
Changing the above to left: -999999px; position: absolute; solved the same issue the OP had (white screen to the right and ability to swipe right).
I'm using Bootstrap 3.3. I tried all of these solutions, and nothing worked. Then, I changed my <div class="container"> to <div class="container-fluid"> in the section that I was having trouble with. This solved the problem.
I tried all what has been suggested here, nothing works. Then I've relized that it connect with scale of page. So then I added <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> to header.php in my main theme's folder and it 's fixed problem.
Seems as though results are varying for different circumstances but a sitewide
html, body { width:100%; x-overflow:hidden; }
seems to have worked for me!
Fixed!
Had a similar problem. Fixed it by setting the width to a current device width.
body, html {
max-width: 100vw;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
SOLVED ¡¡
Since installing protostar joomla template 3.X and start adding content in the module K2 I noticed that annoying scroll with a blank space on the right side, visible especially in iphones.
A correct partial answer was gave for Eva Marie Rasmussen, adding to the body tag in the file template.css these values:
width: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
But this solution is only partial.
Search div class or label that is causing this problem and once detected add to that class in the file templete.css the same values:
width: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
In my case add to the class "span" these two lines to finally look like this:
[Class * = "span"] {
float: left;
min-height: 1px;
margin-left: 20px;
width: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
And it´s working now¡¡
I'm trying to make my wordpress site always display with 100% width. My wordpress-css has no mobile specific css. When I visit the site on mobile, the site is not longer 100% width, despite the css saying that it should be. I'm currently testing stuff in the css and therefore not linking the site.
EDIT: I now tried removing all width-specifications in the entire css, the word "width" is not present anywhere in the css. The html still locks to exactly 320 pixels, same as the width specified by the iPhone4. This could be an issue with wordpress and not the css file.
The really weird thing is that if I scale up the window, and then scale it back down, it looks like it should look:
This is the css:
body, html {
font-family: "Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #333;
min-width: 100%;
margin: auto;
}
I have the viewport-thing at the top of my html:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
However I have not been able to add the "initial-scale=1" into the wordpress html. From what I read I doubt that this is the problem though.
Any suggestions what could be wrong? As a sidenote: It does fail to display 100% width on an actual mobile device as well, it's not just the chrome device simulator failing.
A hint could be that it seems that even wordpress itself misjudges the width of the screen, as can be seen by the wordpress header not filling up 100%
By request of rsn, I will sum up our discussion as an answer. Creds to rsn and everyone else for finding the issue!
In this case, the width itself is set properly. The problem is that things move outside the 100% width and the site tries to scale everything down to fit the stuff moving outside of 100% width. This caused everything else to scale down, including the font size of the text which I thought was an entirely different problem. So, after specifying:
.img {
max-width: 100%;
}
The site worked fine. Except for one last detail, I also has a really long link that, despite having word-wrap: break-word, ended up being wider than the width. To solve this I added:
.long-link {
word-break: break-all;
}
And now nothing moves outside the 100% width, and everything works as it should.
I've been asked to help with a website that has been coded by another company. The site is responsive, when using the 320px - 1024px stylesheet a right margin of about 20px appears.
I've been through the stylesheet 4 times and can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this. I'm now completely stuck as to where this might be occurring.
I'd be very grateful if someone could give me a pointer.
Link to offending website
Here is a screenshot of the margin:- Screenshot
Many thanks in anticipation.
Phill
The problem is this element:
<div class="left-inner-section tp_top">...
It's width is set to 100%...
.left-inner-section {
width: 100%;
// ...
}
... and it starts 35 pixels from the left:
.left-section,
.left-inner-section {
left: 35px;
}
Setting the left value to 0 seems to remove the margin. However, be careful about other side effects.
I have the following issue:
I am making this website... I'm using html and CSS. I've been trying to maintain CSS as standard as possible and checking as I go with the three main browsers: chrome, firefox, and ie. In MY pc it seems to be working fine (with the exception of minor details). However, when other people open it in other screen dimensions , things fall out of place. Does anyone know why this might be happening? take a look at what i'm talking about this is the homepage:
www.britobmarketing.com/ledtogo/index.html
I bet it will be a little unaligned in some of your computers, but in mine it looks perfect. It's stressful!!!
Also, as I was saying, I'm trying to keep the CSS standard so that every browser can view it the same. But browsers like Firefox and ie do not recognize the "round edges" effect on the three buttons I have besides the video. It does work on the rest though, which is what confuses me! Anyone has any idea why this might be happening?
Thank you very much for your time and help!!
This is not an issue of browser rendering engines doing things different.
You aren't taking into account a variable width of the viewport. Your header and footer are centered, and your content is fixed left. So as the viewport gets wider, the header footer stay and the center and slides left.
So for your content, here's the problem:
#indexcontainter {
width: 980px;
height: 390px;
float: none;
margin-left: 170px;
}
In your header, margin: auto is what does the centering, making the left and right margin automatically equal each other. But for the content, you hard code a left margin at 170px.
Change that to use automargins and it starts to work great:
#indexcontainter {
width: 980px;
height: 390px;
float: none;
margin: auto;
}