I need some help:
http://www.stansellelectric.com
If you go to any page on this website and re-size your monitor (or Firefox browser if you use the Web Developer toolbar) down to 1024x768, a horizontal scrollbar will appear both in the #contentwrap div and the page itself. Now, increasing the width of the window to 1039px fixes this, however I need it to stay at 1024px and not have a scrollbar anywhere.
I'm stuck, help please?
1024 pixels is the total width of the screen.
In order to fit content on a 1024 pixel screen, you need to account for the vertical scroll bar (usually 16-24px in width) and (in some browsers) the window's edge. These will take away horizontal space.
Bottom line: You need to use a smaller width for your content than 1024 pixels. A number that is popular among designers is 960 pixels, also because that can be evenly divided; it's used e.g. by the 960 grid system, a popular CSS framework.
However, in my experience, a slightly higher number (like 980 or even 1000) will also work well for the majority of devices.
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I am reading A tale of two viewport and I could not follow the explanation at Consequences. He claims that when one zooms into his page, the upper right corner is not blue anymore even though it has width:100%.
I do not understand why this should be the case. In fact, I cannot even reproduce it:
Could someone explain me on a more simple example what the author's point is?
You can see the effect by using "browser zoom" (not pinch zoom), i.e. ctrl+/-. You need horizontal scrolling to see the effect in the author's example.
When you hit ctrl+ a few times, you're increasing the size of a CSS pixel. This means fewer CSS pixels will fit into your browser window (viewport) and thus zooming in shrinks your viewport. For example, say your viewport is initially 800px wide. You zoom in to 200%. Since each CSS pixel is now double the size, your viewport only fits 400px.
The article's point is that even though the viewport shrunk, the content on the page hasn't (in terms of CSS pixels), it's still ~800px (or whatever the author specified it to) since only the pixel size has changed. This means sizes that rely on the viewport will now look disproportional to the rest of the content. In his example, the top bar is set to fill the viewport width 100%. When the content becomes larger than the viewport, the bar will not extend the same width as the content.
Quick Overview of my Problem:
I made a site for mobile, it looks great. Move on tablet it looks horrible. As in it's like 5x stretched out from left and right. Imagine your face stretched horizontally up to 4ft.
Research and Possible Solution
I had a feeling i could viewport. As I thought, if i could just SCALE the layout instead of having browser provide more width and then my layout spreading to accommodate.
Article told me that if i set viewport meta tag width=300 or anything custom then browser scales whole page to fit the current viewport's actual width so 300px would be covering 1200px, at least that's what my impression was.
However, it DIDN'T work. No matter what viewport settings I do they appear to have no effect on scaling.
What i want
I want my page to scale up. I don't want to specify every border width in em units than create dozen media query checkpoints to increase font size. Especially since my layout remains the same only it needs to scale up.
If i was going after different layouts then obviously i'd've used media queries.
I've tried this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=300">
I solved it using some javascript
first add (i'm using jade)
meta(id="myViewport", name="viewport", content="width=device-width")
Now window.innerWidth will give correct browser width and not some arbitrary number set by browser like 960 which was being reported by chrome on 360 width phone and 2100+ tablet.
Now just check if screen is wide then limit the viewport's width that way browser will scale it up so, for my tablet, 500 pixels will take up 2100 pixels.
if (window.innerWidth > 450) {
var mvp = document.getElementById('myViewport');
mvp.setAttribute('content','width=500');
}
//- first set device width so window.innerwidth shows actual width then change accordingly.
Site in progress: http://www.modernfuture.net/wordpress
I've been banging my head against the wall over this for hours - when I resize my browsers width (by dragging the browser window's right resize handle) my site maintains that nice responsive centered effect I want for roughly 1/8th of my browsers window size. However when I drag the browser's right window resize handle from right to left past this point (roughly 1/8th the width of the browser window, when the browser window is taking up the full width of my 1080p screen) my site (header, content, and footer) stops staying centered and the resize handle crops over the site rather than maintaining the responsive centering that I'm looking to achieve.
I've tried applying the "margin: o auto;" trick to the body class and the wrapper class individually and simultaneously, but it doesn't yield the desired results.
I'm really at a loss for ideas here. Can anyone offer some insight please? Thanks!
You need to remove the width from body class and margin also need to set margin:0px;
I've set width to 100% for all main divs but there is still horizontal scroll-bar. Can't fix that problem. How to remove it? I don't know why it's appearing. Please take a look at my test page. http://aquastyle.az?lang=en
I cannot get your test page to open but this is typically caused when you have padding, a shadow, or a border applied to the 100% width element causing it to render wider than 100%.
Without seeing the page, I can only give the following generic advice: This can be fixed by removing the style properties that are causing the problem or reducing the width until the problem disappears.
EDIT:
After looking at your page, you don't seem to have a problem as you described. You just have too much (too big/wide) content side by side. When I make my browser's window about 1700 pixels wide, the horizontal scroll-bar disappears. This is an issue of poor layout more than programming.
EDIT 2 (The Root Cause/Solution):
It seems that the OP's PHP program is calculating the "display" width and placing content accordingly. The problem is that the "browser window" width is not the same as the "display" width. My display is 1680 pixels wide and the OP's PHP program reports that correctly. Naturally, my browser window is not 1680 pixels wide, more like 1000-1200 pixels, so I get a long horizontal scroll-bar which disappears when I make the browser window exceed 1680 pixels. Taking the width of the vertical scroll-bar into account, you actually have to make the browser window about 20 pixels wider than the display in order to get the horizontal scroll-bar to disappear (for me that was about 1700 pixels total). I imagine the OP can fix this issue by looking at browser's "viewport" (window) width rather than the computer's "display" width.
You'll want to use
overflow:hidden
on the element you're trying to eliminate the scroll bars from.
Or, you could use jQuery:
$("body").css("overflow", "hidden");
EDIT:
Your layout is 1920x1200. I have that resolution right now and I NEVER max out my browser window. It's always 20 to 25% smaller.
Most if not 98% of website layouts are 960px max width. I looked at your CSS (nice try with disabling right-click BTW) and you're left and right columns are both 200px EACH, while your main-content width is 1460px. I think you see where I'm going with this. I'm sorry, but the only way you're going to get no scrollbars is to redo your layout where everything fits in a 1000px layout or less. Preferably less. An important thing to check is the screen resolution stats that help in determining what percentage of users is running at a certain screen resolution. This will help you in targeting your preferred audience.
TL;DR
You gotta redo your entire layout, it's too wide for the majority of users out there..
I am new to Div based Page Layouts. My questions is should we design div based page layouts using percentage or fixed pixel?
If percentage, what about cross browser compatibility?
If fixed pixels, what about different screen resolution? What screen resolution should we opt for?
Also, what should be the bases for our decision?
Most div based page layouts use fixed pixel widths, not percentages.
Using percentages has its advantages in very few scenarios - if you have a page that you want to change width based on window/browser, you'd use this. But I honestly can't think of the last time I saw a site that did this.
Fixed pixel widths allows you to actually design what your site will look like regardless of browser, screen resolution...etc.
When creating a layout with fixed widths, usually you create a "container" div that is around 960px wide (see http://960.gs/). This width is used because it fits most browsers/screen resolutions (eg - anything 1024x768 and above)
The "container" is usually centered on the page (though sometimes it's left aligned) - for examples, see msn.com, yahoo.com, stackoverflow.com ...etc. These are all fixed widths, not percentage (you can test this by changing the size of your window and seeing that their content does not change)