I'm developing a mobile website. It's working fine on iPhone in Safari using the following meta tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=0.5; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=1;" />
In Android, the website is scaling to about 480 pixels in width and only taking up about half of the web browser, meaning the left side has the website at approximately 480 pixels in width and the right side is blank.
If I change the meta tag to this, it works fine:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=680; initial-scale=0.5; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=1;" />
So "hard coding" the width at 680 pixels works, however I don't want to do this as this website is designed to accommodate multiple sizes. I tried adding target-densitydpi=device-dpi to the meta tag with no luck. What else can I do to have my website scale to the device's width on Android?
I 'solved' it by using $('body').css({ width: $(document).width() }) in jQuery, since the site already relies on JavaScript. I realize this is not a clean solution, but it works and I'm tired, so for now it'll have to do. If anybody has a better solution I'd love to hear it.
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I seem to have problem when loading html.
without html head and meta tags my page is bigger because of images.
although i have set inline style for them:
""
so basically image should be 100% but limited to screen resoultion.
but in reality they are 4-5 time bigger than my screen resolution.
when i set meta tags the images are displayed perfectly fine within bounds of the page:
however font sizes are broken font-size:1px stated inline, shows something like 14-15px in mobile app
but when i remove meta from html font-size:1px will be really 1px in mobile app.
any idea's how can i solve this issue. also this only happens on android.. on IOS i don't have such issue with meta and font sizes.
you html must be responsive you need to add meta tag viewport
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width , initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" />
Viewport ?
I've been working on a responsive design. To stop the content from crossing boundaries i've used viewpoint meta tag with width = 480. The problem is i want my website to load with minimum of 480px no matter what. If the screen width is less than 480px I want it to fit the screen width by "Zooming out".
I've used the following viewpoint meta tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=480px, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" />
I've also used min-width css tag to specify minimum width.
<body style="min-width: 480px; width:100%; margin:auto;">
So after all this when i tried to load the website in DevTools Emulator (Google Chrome), it shows a horizontal scrollbar. Got any ideas on how to do it.
Have you tried width=device-width?
I don't think forcing the 480px in the meta will do what you want (not crossing media-query-type boundries).
I'm making a website skin / takeover.
It looks good on all browsers except android, where the skin image css parameter (width: 100%) is seen as the screen width not as at least the website's width. So it doesn't wrap the website but stops at the device's screen width. Please see yourself, I cannot explain very good. What can I do?
The first image is the website loaded on galaxy S3 and the second image is the website a little scrolled to see the right side. Please edit my question if you have better words.
This is the temporary link until I will move it to the client: http://csengrosseto.digitalprimes.com
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/>
This is the version that also controls the zoom.
When I created a PhoneGap application previously, the images rendering on the pages are not correctly displayed on high DPI devices. So I made the web page with fixed pixel ratio: 1 for all devices without considering device DPI. But this will reduce the clarity of images.
I planned to use fluidic styles for my new app and not use specific width and height in HTML. But when I specified height in px for a div (in CSS), the height renders differently in different devices.
Is there any way to make the ratio of HTML as well as CSS width and height same?
Is there any unknown property to tell HTML to behave in different Pixel ratio.
I am using the HTML tag:
<meta name="viewport" id="viewport" content="width=device-width, target-densitydpi=device-dpi, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />
I would like to render the page in device-dpi to avoid reduction in clarity. Kindly provide your ideas.
You should ideally avoid using pixels and use em's. For ex: Instead of 16px, use 1.1em or whatever is the equivalent for your situation. This worked for my phonegap jquerymobile applications
I would like to ask why my HTC Desire HD's browser reports viewport's width of 369px even though the actual pixel size of the screen is 480x800 WVGA.
I am using in my page this CSS styles:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0" />
Can you please explain me this strange behaviour and how to force Android browser to actually set viewport's width to 480px rather than weird 369px ?
Thank you for any help.
A detailed explanation of the issue can be found in that blog post.
The number that you see (369px) is actually the size of the device multiplied by the default, assumed, screen density of 160 dpi.
In order to use the device screen density, you have to specify, in the viewport meta, that you want to use the device's dpi.
e.g.:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, target-densityDpi=device-dpi">
EDIT: The documentation of the WebView class now also has information about the target-densityDpi parameter, and the possible values.