Does anyone know of any alternate styling I can use to make this mobile compatible? I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the height value but I can't just get rid of it because the part that php call runs into my text without it.
<section style="width:100%; float:left; height:100px; clear:both;" >
<section class="campaign_statistics" style="background-color:#EFEFEF;">
<?php include('progress_chart.php'); ?>
</section>
</section>
Have you seen http://cssmediaqueries.com/
Media queries allow you to do separate stylesheets for certain screen resolutions. For example, you can have one stylesheet that runs for desktops, one for laptops and one for mobile devices.
You can then specify different styling for objects that relate to the stylesheet and screen resolution you are trying to style for.
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I'm creating an email template and I am trying to make it responsive now I've run into a problem, I have been looking into using the "#media" tags but emails don't really like <style> so I'm really not sure how to do it.
<body>
<table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
text blah blah
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- This is the one I was responsive (The one below) -->
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Make this table responsive <3
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</table>
</body>
P.S, I don't need the top to be responsive so how can I link the second one to the CSS
I have all my tables and the Desktop design look perfecto' E.G the divs and tables are '%' not 'px' and I have 2 divs next to each other when it get scaled down to mobile they are still at 50% of the browser screen (50% of the mobile and desktop) but when they get scaled down I want them to be 100% of the mobile screen
<head>
<style>
#media only screen and (max-width: 771px) {
/*add your class and code here*/
}
</style>
</head>
<style> tag would go into the <head> tag.
But be careful what you use some platform have abysmal email CSS support, also see this.
I would limit my use of CSS3/HTML5 in emails.
But honestly I wouldn't bother with building it from scratch, it's just too tedious of a task; you have to get it working on different platforms.
I would use an email HTML builder (most are free) like:
stamplia
campaignmonitor
litmus
inkbrush
*Note: Conventionally with HTML emails you would lay everything out with tables, not grids.
There are two approaches to using media queries - mobile first or desktop first.
The way that has the most support and is likely the easiest for someone just entering into HTML CSS is desktop first approach. In this you will inline all the styles for your desktop rendering. You then add media queries for the different breakpoints to make the email fit the device screen. This is easiest and has most support as the only mobile email clients that do not really support media queries are ones like the Gmail App (which are usually a small percentage of your mobile audience). The issue is that, using the Gmail App as an example, depending on how you styled your email, this may cause it to break on Gmail app - causing display issues.
This is where the mobile first approach comes in. Mobile first builds the email with inline styles to display correctly in gmail app and then uses media queries and mso conditional statements to make it flesh out and fill correctly on a desktop display. This requires much more knowledge of CSS and email client 'quirks and hacks' but can create emails that display beautifully across all clients. This can sometimes require much more styling and much more code to accomplish due to the complexity of the different processors in email clients.
For initial forays I would recommend building as always desktop first and then use media queries for mobile as it is simple and is much more widely supported, so requires much less hacks.
For help with supported CSS, please reference - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css
Hope this info helped.
References:
Litmus - https://litmus.com/blog/understanding-media-queries-in-html-email
Email on Acid - https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/email-development/media_queries_in_html_emails
CampaignMonitor - https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3163/optimizing-your-emails-for-mobile-devices-with-media/
In HTML emails, you have two ways to do all of your styling, since you can't have a seperate stylesheet.
The first is a <style> tag.
Your email will have a structure of <html>-><head>-><body>.
<style> tags can only be placed in the head so your set up should look something like this.
<html>
<head>
<style>
#media screen only (max-width:767px){
/* Your CSS goes here */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
/*HTML Code goes here */
</body>
</html>
The other option you have will only work if you just want to change width, and that would be using percents in your element's inline styling, like this:
<div class="header-block" style="width:100%;"></div>
You can find more on using media queries in emails on litmus.com.
If you already have it made up with extra CSS in your style tag, the Inline styler tool might be able to help you convert embedded styles to inline.
already done and use and try it
Its not using in Media inside a table structure
<table width="600px" max-width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td>content......</td><td>content....</td></tr>
<tr><td>content......</td><td>content....</td></tr>
<tr><td>content......</td><td>content....</td></tr>
<tr><td>content......</td><td>content....</td></tr>
</table>
I want to implement a responsive image in an email newsletter for e.g. mobile phones. For this I used this code snippet from templates.mailchimp.com and inserted it into the body above the image I want to be changed:
<style type="text/css">
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px){
.emailImage {
height:auto !important;
max-width:600px !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
}
</style>
For the pictures I wanted to be responsive I added the class=”emailImage”.
Sadly now, this doesn’t work. Anyone can explain why or give a better solution for my problem?
If necessary here is the complete code from my newsletter: http://pastebin.de/39651?
Thanks
Try this:
<style type="text/css">
#media screen and (max-width: 480px){
img[class="emailImage"] {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
</style>
<img class="emailImage" src="path/to/img" style="width: 600px; height:auto;" width="600">
This is same code I used for my newsletter and it works fine. I will update my answer later when I find references as to why this particular way of styling is necessary and for what mail clients, it's been a while since I did that code.
UPDATE: using attribute selectors inside media queries is workaround for Yahoo mail bug which gives precedence to styles inside media queries over inline ones.
Max-width support across mail clients is pretty limited so safer way is just specify image width as inline style (that gets trumped in MQ using !important). Since height is always auto it can just be defined inline. Global attributes are used as ultimate fallback just in case some mail clients decide to ignore or strip inline styling.
Also, in (kinda) complex mail layouts that image element will probably be inside some table in which case table element must also have same set of properties inline and inside media query for it to be responsive.
Useful link: CSS support across mail clients
Emails as HTML do not support CSS (at least not all email clients support this feature yet). You'll have to use the old-school HTML stuff such as <img src="some-URL.png" width="100" height="200">
btw, you may also try to use inline style attribute on the HTML tag itself. It might works for some email clients.
Check out this post for "best-practices" with emails and HTMLs
Most email clients have terrible support for CSS. Most clients strip the of your email template so you shouldn't include important CSS in there. It could also be the fact that certain clients strip class names from email, or reformat them, or refuse to understand media queries or a myriad of other possible issues.
The solution is to simply write all CSS inline on each and every element. Regular max-width: 100% and height: auto should be sufficient.
There are tools that convert an external set of styles and class names to inline styles. That does prevent you from using media queries so make sure you don't depend on them to render your email.
Edit: Since you seem to be using Mailchimp, have a look at their article on CSS in HTML emails.
I'm writing a responsive wordpress site. I'm using the bones theme template. The grid system included worked pretty well on most of the site, but I found I needed differing number of columns on different screen sizes for a particular page.
To do this, I used a bit of scss that looks like this:
(base media query)
section{
display:table;
float:left;
margin-left:0;
width:100%;
}
(media query for 768 px and above)
section{
height:150px;
width:48.618784527%;
&:nth-child(3n+1), &:nth-child(2n){
margin-left:2.76243%;
}
&:nth-child(2n+1){
margin-left:0;
}
text-align:right;
}
(media query for 1030px and above)
.pracareas{
section{
width:31.491712705%;
&:nth-child(2n+1){
margin-left:2.76243%;
}
&:nth-child(3n+1){
margin-left:0;
}
}
}
And HTML like this
<div class="pracareas">
<section>... content</section>
<section>... content</section>
<section>... content</section>
<section>... content</section>
</div>
This works great on desktop browser and Android. But on safari I get something like this:
What's really strange is that if I refresh and/or rotate the ipad to portrait or vice versa, I get this:
But if I click on a link leading to this page or visit it directly (typing into the url bar), the layout is messed up until I refresh or rotate.
I'm probably going to abandon this approach and go for fixed number of columns above mobile because this seems really messy. But I thought I'd ask since it is only not working on a single browser.
That's because not all browsers render decimal values of width in percentages the same way.
Another approach could be to set breakpoints with media queries in order to target different devices.
Also try to round a bit those values and see if you manage to get an acceptable result.
See this: Are the decimal places in a CSS width respected?
Browsers handle percentages differently, it would not be wise to put too many decimals places straight into the layout. Browsers either round up or down, so you can try to round it up and see if you find a solution.
I am currently using media query in my css but my site is still looking bad. Is there a way to determine first the witdh of a browser and then load different index files?
To post some code here is my media query:
#media screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.topbar{
opacity: 0;
}
....
}
I would say do some more research on building your CSS but to answer your question:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (screen.width <= 699) {
document.location = "http://mobilesite.com";
}
</script>
It might be an idea to load different css files for different screen sizes; essentially moving the media selection from the css to the html:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-width: 600px)" href="600px.css">
You might want to read Detect different device platforms using CSS for some related content.
Generally you want to aim to use the same .html file for your website, then use CSS to customise specifically for desktop or mobile. I know you may have very different ideas for the two sites, but it can all be done in pure CSS if your markup (html code) is good enough. Check out the CSS Zen Garden for how powerful CSS can be.
If you want to completely reset your css for the mobile site, just wrap the old css in a media query targeting screens screen and (min-width: 601px), and you will find your mobile site is completely unstyled
css has nothing to do with loading different index files according to the browser width.
If you want to style your elements differently using #media rules, make sure they are set close to the bottom of the page, in other words - after the main styles, because otherwise - they will be simply overwritten.
When using responsive design, is there a way to still allow a user to view the full site?
E.g. They are viewing on an iPhone, but want to see the full site. They click a "Full Site" link, and it shows them the 1024px version.
If you're using media queries, only apply rules beneath a body element having the class 'responsive'.
#media screen and (max-width: 320px) {
body.responsive {
color: blue;
}
}
If the user doesn't want to view the responsive layout, simply remove the 'responsive' class from the body element, nullifying all rules. You could persist the users preference by cookie or some other method as well.
Demo: http://jsbin.com/obaquq/edit#javascript,html
Reducing the window to no more than 500px will turn the text white, and the background blue. This is conditional on the body having the 'responsive' class. Clicking the first paragraph will toggle this class, and thus toggle the effects of the media query itself.
I've been wondering about this. I had success using jQuery to modify the viewport tag, seems to work fairly well from what I can tell so far. Doesn't require multiple stylesheets or a lot of extra CSS.
http://creativeandcode.com/responsive-view-full-site/
Haven't tried this, but thought about this issue myself. I imagine you could use a stylesheet switcher that deactivates the core responsive stylesheet, leaving the user with the full version
Switching stylesheets certainly isn't a new concept. Here is an article for ALA circa 2001 addressing switching stylesheets: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/