responsive media queries for all devices

That has me a little confused. Man, Im having trouble with this media query stuff. this is an useful information about responsive web design! Its a bit different. W3schools.com has missed about real media queries ! and (max-device-height : 1024px) { Same problem. I know this is perhaps not the answer you were looking for, but why do you need device-width? /* Portrait and Landscape */ If you use only @media only screen and (min-width: NNNpx) and no max, expect troubles but they are solvable try to break your code to what is the architecture (dimensions and sizes) and what is design (colors and imagery) and have separate files Architecture files should have min/max defining start and stop points, while min- can carry design element transformations upward (or downward depending on if you start mobile first or not). Why not delete (min-width : 1224px) and set it at a much larger pixel rate. opportunity in HTML, to decide what will happen with the columns at each I need to push it to 375px to make it cover the width of portrait view. font-size:20px; Reply . and (min-device-width : 768px) What are the gotchas (if any) for offloading media queries to their own external style sheet from an already lengthy style sheet? I have the max-width set to 1047 and the min-width 1048. He is using things such as. I emailed him a couple of times and he always responded to me. We can add a breakpoint where and (min-width : 1224px) { Extra small devices (phones, 600px and down) */, @media only screen and (orientation: Can anybody tell how to achieve css for ipads 10.5 & 12.9 version as css stated above is not working, Could you let me know which i start with phone size first to make page responsive. For iphone 4 and 4s, device-width would probably be 480px in landscape mode but only if these two devices were Android phones. @media only screen I am a GUI designer. It has nothing to do with whether people know to scroll or not- its the notion of captivating your audience quickly. Its helped me. Chris? I have a 480px style set so what else am I doing wrong? Another thing. Am I missing something? Also at the very minimum use this in your head section but preferably use this, Also at the very minimum use this in your head section but preferably use this . Nexus S reports 533 Pixels in landscape mode. I think what the developer was showing was the media queries for the various iPhone stuff. Any suggestions? Is this incorrect? Its blue for iPadAir, iPad Retina, Desktop. do I nest the media queries? Is that necessary/helpful? Then, as you need additional styling for larger screens, use a media query to target those styles. and (max-width : 480px) { }, @media only screen I usually use 4 ranges for my site that it.

I do have the styles for the retina display only, in addition to regular smartphones, and it does not seem to work on distinguishing between the two. To fill up the extra space on the sides you could use a gradient, clever shadows, or some images to fill up the blank space. Other phones that use the same resolution will be included as well, but if youre looking for the code to support iPhone 4 and 4S, here ya go. This article is awesome. }. Hey Chris, great info. If you use min-device-width or max-device-width, make sure you are also defining min-width and max-width (same goes if youre targeting height, and yes people targeting heights does work). Does this work with 5 years old mobiles as well? @media only screen Im using this scheme on my own WordPress theme and at the moment its working very well. I there more up to date guide for standard media queries?? Your email address will not be published. Should have seen that one! Validators often puke on code which is perfectly fine. / Source: https://medium.com/connect-the-dots/css-media-queries-for-ipad-pro-8cad10e17106*/ when i have any problem in web designing in see your ideas and they are almost perfect. and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {, /* Landscape / So below is what works s fine for me. Its also a good way to understand popular devices and to then lump them into groups via more generalized media queries. Hello, Can you tell me how or where i could find out how to use them? He isnt using a different width just for mobile. Ive found it, I just remove the width=device-width in the meta tag at index.php and viola! I arrived here because on suggestion to my project. and (max-width : 768px) { }, @media only screen For example, the smartphone landscape query is min-width:321px my desktop browser when larger then 321px wide will run the stylesheet intended for smartphones. Is it possible to target individual screen sizes instead of using min-width and max-width etc. Seems to be all or nothing so far. and (min-width : 481px) Its not perfect, as I havent had a chance to try it on the Retina iPad (DPI anyone? While is it very useful, it can be very daunting and overwhelming. As far as I can tell my site is working fine across all devices, though testing UserAgents is a pain. line-height:20px; In the above post, I see the CSS script up to Iphone 4 to Iphone 6/6 Plus. Can anyone tell me what I have two ads returned in this code? For some reason, I cant for the life of me get it to load on a HTC 7 Trophy windows phone without being zoomed in. Google loves valid HTML, and so does its crawlers. Today this article very help me :) Thanks!

It seems like all you really have to do now is design your website to break wherever it looks good using a desktop computer and Chrome web inspector tools. Rather than try and guess how high-res the next generation of phones will be, and have the site inevitably break on some new device in the future, I thought it made more sense to simply allow no limit and instead exclude the devices I didnt want by using media queries. Far loads the proper stylesheet for the screens actual resolution. and (max-device-width: 834px) Or how I need to correct it? Your text to link here is a polyfill for using media queries with IE 8 below. Im wondering if I can pay you to make me a simple template for HTML emails (that look like text) that looks good in mobile devices and desktop. (orientation : portrait) doesnt validate for CSS3. Does iPads (portrait) query target only portrait? I need the text itself to be style font size +1 (so it looks slightly larger then the users normal email messages). Let me know if you can do it and how much. window.addEventListener(resize, function(){ Marcy isnt saying dude just write shitty broken HTML, its cool! Hello folks. For instance, weve developed a touch screen kiosk/web app thats nothing more than a responsive website tailored to a specific touchscreen monitor width and the usual mobile sizes. Or are other unit types better (like px) with media queries? Seen how iOS+Safari doesnt consider itself a handheld device, using @media handheld and ( does not work, so I found that some were clashing with others were they shouldnt have been. and (max-width : 1024px) But then you have 1224px, ok this is larger then the resolution of my macbook but 1200px at least is my imac size and to me the standard size of any screen round a bout. http://www.zappybaby.be/nl only screen breakpoint: The first and the third section will both span 3 columns each. please help, Sounds like you could use some advice. Just because it works does not mean its working for you or your clients. can anyone help me? I never use -device-, I dont see the point because all devices will fall into the above @media queries that Gerard posted. I think this thread may help me. As Chris Coyer said the above way(using mixins and SCSS) is the way your brain wants to connect the dots, so why organize things differently. }); I think this is the better way to post my previous question. Thanks for this guide. As a special welcome offer, enjoy $100 of free credit to try DigitalOcean on us. @media rule in our CSS reference. This tool fails to catch landscape and portrait mode queries. Hi, When I use this to request a stylesheet for retina displays: Or did Bulma miss the note on this one? The query in the iPhone 4 and 4S section (copy/pasted below) is going to effect a lot more devices than iPhone 4 and 4S. @media (min-width:1024px) { .adslot_1 { width: 300px; height: 250px; } }. Do you have a specific reason for using it? Does the trick that german wrote to Mike let you target the iPhone4? I responded to it. and (max-width : 1024px) { }, @media only screen I used online responsive design tool http://ipadpeek.com/ . This happens when the browser is set and the initial load of the css file with the @Media query loads. Ive tried something with the not operator : When designing for a mobile site iPhone retina display I traditionally use a resolution of 640960. /*your styles for a 480px device*/ Gorgeous site, Jeremy! http://JetBBS.com/test2.html. quirks otherwise Hi, = 481, <= 768 Just FYI, this is impossible if you plan to support all email clients. I see this was last updated October 9, 2017. If you use min-width:321px, then max-width:500px, the min width property overrides it because it applies all styles above 321px. }, @media (min-width: 820px) i am writing right now is a page that will change the background image for each screen device because the desktop version is going to have hi-res photos on it. I am using the Responsive Theme. @media only screen and (min-device-width : 768px) and (max-device-width : 1024px) and (orientation : portrait) {, but.. when i change the code to.. http://nmsdvid.com/snippets/, This media queries snippet are just great, well organized and very clear.. Especially when they present their opinions as fact, like Marcy did. Mostly if you use Percentage values for specifying width, margin as well as padding, the removed term is not needed. ok, just ignore my comment above about swapping the media queries around. @media screen and (not max-device-pixel-ratio:1) {stuff } If you load desktop images in your global style sheet, then target smaller devices with smaller images, overriding the larger, you will be loading both the large and smaller image even though the larger is not being displayed, it is being loaded, thereby slowing down the load time of the site for mobile users. You would have to research each device you want to target to find out the heights or find the phone with the lowest resolution to use as a baseline. When I commented out this stylesheet from the header, the phone totally ignored the others, even the one that specifically targets its resolution. Thank You. Now between 768px and 1824px I can then create the grid system as normal to whatever size i feel and when it goes below 768px or above 1824px, it changes. **********/ That worked for me. iphone4+ now show a different css and I can now make my desktop browser 800px minimum width and not the minimum 1136px (iphone4+). hi , iI have just tried this snippet some how it is not working for me. But again when i am using this method for screen size (736414) then its not workign. Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content. I want to target a certain device using a specific browser. /* Styles */ and (orientation : portrait) { and (orientation : portrait) However, in IOS there is only one (1) device-width. LG Optimus G how can I make a special styles for the Iphone4 retina in landscape position? You have used proportion for iPhone 4, but what proportion will work for iPhone 5? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13076371/media-query-for-ipad-and-desktop-max-width. I love your input boxes with the images in them! It seems like the best idea is to choose the widest portrait of the cell phones and simply make ALL portrait-size mobile device design start at that size. and (min-device-width : 320px) Question: If I put absolutely everything in ems (ie all elements, text, etc) and the layout in % (or should this also be ems? Hey there! How about making this more about media queries & sharing knowledge and less about cutting people down? When I test in an emulator the devices highlighted the site looks fine, but still for some devices it seems not to work. Junior developers are led astray every day by comments from people like this. But it is not ok in pixels between the media queries because I used padding or margin. Looks like you may need to work in another field. But their is no mixing. i meant You may want to note somewhere here that device-width and device-pixel-ratio are now deprecated: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queries/Using_media_queries#Media_features. But this seems very interesting. I dont quite see it in your source. color : white; @media (min-width:900px) { .adslot_1 { width: 300px; height: 250px; } } / Portrait and Landscape */ But this isnt even working for iPhone4s.. we are planning a tablet version of our existing website with entirely different content. Of course will work for semi modern browsers this is the best option in my opinion. )- can you share a simple suggestion for the minimum number of media queries to use and the em values. http://demo.slickdesign.com.au/responsive-template/. Google SEO Test Google Prefers W3C Valid HTML & CSS? What is up with that. With Min/Max width, you are also allowing for new devices as they emerge, no matter what the device dimensions are. It always reports 320px. If I eliminate the footer for normal smartphones, it overrides the retina styles regardless. meh the whole thing is wrong X) In regards to the media queries working on android browser. and (orientation : landscape) Or a tablet that is 10 by 5. @media only screen and (min-width: 1824px) {}, /* Tablet Devices, Desktop and Laptop Screens */ Not exactly. Thank you Gerad for sharing the code. I wrote the 4 standard media queries with bootstrap.It is ok. Especially on mobile web. Id suggest writing all of your styles as though they are mobile styles. Using device-height and device-width, respectively min/max-device-height and min/max-device-width is deprecated per MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queries/Using_media_queries and should not be used any more. I also use this as a reference but as spike said how about the new 7 Nexus and the iPad Mini. display:none; }, /********** We got 99 viewports, but the iPhones just one.Josh Brewer, March 10, 2010. Very grateful. and (min-device-width : 320px) have you used device width, initial scale=1 in your meta? http://eighttech.com/projects/8com/vpage.html, Please give issues in this URL }, Hello Great article. This would lend one to use something like this to target Android: The problem with this is that it overlaps with the iPad and using min-device-pixel-ratio is not enough to separate them when you get to the iPad 3 as they both have that as 2. Or would you say its largely unchanged? I am looking for an online guide that I can use for reference for current and future projects as it appears that this one is out dated. Im weary about above-the-fold problems. and (min-width : 769px) and (min-device-width: 1112px) I stumbled on this post searching for the same problem you had getting everything to look the same cross-phone-browsers. Does this site have an updated thread please?? If I run into a problem I cant spot easily, validation is one potential tool but no one at my agency validates as part of our regular workflow anymore. I had the same problem on the Ipad. Hello, what about new smartphone with high resolution such as the sony xperia Z for exemple. Very basic, changes colour and content when the screen is re-sized. Hi Chris. I notice that you (Chris) dont use it in your code for this site. I have tried the same media queries for wordpress test site loaded on localhost. The problem is that the iphone4+ and the normal *smartphone* min/max dimensions are targeting the same dimensions of 320 and 480 respectively and I am unable to get separate devices with same width/height ratios to be targeted differently without overriding each other. Any Suggestion ? CSS-Tricks is joining the DigitalOcean community! Can you please explain why you used a media query like this? Im also curious why we wouldnt want to leverage device orientation for this task also seems slightly more platform agnostic. http://thesassway.com/intermediate/responsive-web-design-in-sass-using-media-queries-in-sass-32, Great article man, yes its been 3 years since the article was created but I still find it useful :). /* Styles */ Ive been doing some testing on this and using a sony xperia s it seems to think that device width changes with orientation (720px then 1280px). five groups: Media queries can also be used to change layout of a page depending on the Thank you. Gmail strips out the head of your message so media queries wont work. use this to target specific devices Unfortunately, chrome web inspector tools are not entirely reliable for evaluating iPhone media queries for Safari.

Pretty useful! On these cases, its better to add one pixel more to the min-width; for example, min-width: 769px. I am using: inside code @media only screen .adslot_1 { width: 300px; height: 250px; } I noticed the iPad Pro 10.5 have the same min-device-width and max-device-width. We can scale this up or down based upon a percentage and change the width constrictions and there we have a complete fluid and responsive design.

You seem to be missing the ability to target both ipad and iphones: This is information is helpful, but is there any way to write minimum media queries and work on all size devices. I found that some of the media queries here a bit haphazard. **********/ No. text-align:center; Kindly advice screen width for Nook Color device. here you can use the following for devices: If you really need to provide device-specific content, using JavaScript or a server-side script to query the user agent string is one solution, but it isnt super reliable due to the fact the user agent string can be easily changed. Have you tested which size (min-width/max-width) can target the new MacBooks Retina display? It also appears I need to position everything in a percentage to make it more fluid. Its a waste of time. }, my problem is that when i use @media (max-width: 320px) then page works fine . Thanks in advance for your reply. Did browser makers roll max-device-width into their browser builds? screen and (min-device-width: 1009px) HTC Desire uses this stylesheet. f1ss1on: But what will your code do on a Samsung Galaxy 4 and an iPhone 5? Marcy, I apologize for insulting you. It is handy. Keep these on file and thanks for sharing. Looks like youre only using: You are correct, but Im not sure what the solution is here. Thanks its work with me without frameworks :). But, isnt there something much simpler that Zurb Foundation is doing? Im pretty new to this media queries thing so I may be missing something but I try to implement lessframework on a page and something weird is happening on my iPhone4: when is in portrait it is resizing the page just fine but when I rotate to landscape the page goes out of boundaries I wrote this in my HTML-Code: This is only an example. I dont see that in use ANYWHERE ELSE. Just put that in your main css file where you hide the footer but then add a style in there to display it. Is that correct? I am currently using Bootstrap and it seems like the layout changes should be made when the page is vertical in the ipad, but the layout doesnt change unless I alter the media queries from 768px to 769px. }, @media and (min-width : 1224px) { Im just at the base of my learning curve on using alternate stylesheets for different devices. And why there is no Windows phone devices ? The simplest is to use Chrome instead of Safari as this is a mobile Safari bug. The only way in which I could see myself using a device-width tag would be for some sort of mobile app based on HTML. font-family:font-h2; I am working on a website to make it responsive. :), Use your base/global style sheet for styling, and your media query files for the layout dimensions and text overrides. While mobile-first is a strategy that encompasses lots of things, in CSS media queries, it would mean that base styles are written for mobile devices then, from there, media queries are used to apply styles to larger screens. For me, its like a holstered sidearm as I walk into this minefield of devices. I have had a lot of problems with devices 768px wide. HI i am using (landscape and portrait) for screen size (1024768). 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Device-specific is not the route Id like to go because there are an insane amount of devices, but I still want to know the basic media query breakpoints that I should use and best practices for doing so. Could you please share the details. I have tried lots of ways but it just seems that if I use min-width, max-width for example, I usually end up changing the styles for several resolutions with only one media query. can you express to me. breakpoint. certain condition is true. /* iPads (portrait) /

If you are using display:none, you have a better chance of that element not being rendered by the browser. I want to know, how many type of media screen size. I guess @media is seeing that my Nexus is 480800 and taking the higher number as the width. and (min-device-width: 1800px) @media (min-width:300px) { .adslot_1 { width: 320px; height: 50px; } } Smaller tablets have been released and some mobile resolutions have gotten bigger. Bulma (front end framework) uses 768px as the max mobile width and 769px as the minimum tablet width. Provide CSS code for mobile, tablet, desktop, and laptop. Changing it to min-device-width doesnt help either. This is a ios bug. Theyre basically saying hey, this is the media query for iPhone 4 and 4S. Actually, when viewing with portrait in ipad the max-device-width will be 768px right? I sincerely hope you will help me. LG Nexus 4 If you dont have valid HTML, you dont have a site worthy of indexing. Is there any way to tell the physical size of the device in inches (or cm)? A mobile-first approach would look something like this: Note how min-width is being used. Thanks for posting and keep up the awesome work. /* here come styles from mobile-retina.css */ Even Blackberries work fine. @media only screen Page fold is not a digital term its from the days when newspapers (remember them?) I know I might be wrong here, as I am very new to this.. Another problem is that different browsers respond differently to device-width. Will you upgrade this post in the near future? This is one thing that makes HTML 5 so great. A major component of responsive design is creating the right experience for the right device. Mike: and (min-width : 321px) { I just want to know how to set up media queries to work with the majority of devices. Josh Brewer, March 10, 2010. Theres a nifty script here http://github.com/scottjehl/iOS-Orientationchange-Fix, that can fix it for the user automatically, and it works pretty well! from larger screen to smaller one. With a gazillion different devices on the market, this can be a tall task. Very grateful. and (min-width : 768px) I was just thinking that a lot has evolved and come about with mobiles and tablets since you wrote this article back in October 2010. Thanks, Example: Nobody really validates HTML anymore since there are so many evolving standards. It is my opinion that misinformation passed around by people in my industry who claim to be experts is one of its biggest downsides. margin-top:20px;

/* Styles */ I have built my first truely responsive site, with a lot of help from CSS Tricks. Please help me. You can have a set of CSS properties that will only Thanks again CSS-Tricks, you guys continue to produce quality workI I use on a daily basis! But while I tested localhosted wordpress site directly by changing screen resolution of my pc with windows 7 in portrait and landscape its works. For example, a resolution of 25321170 could exist for a smartphone that is 5 by 2.5, or for a mini tablet that is 7 by 3.5, which could also be the dimensions of a large smartphone. Michael. }. Anything starting in -moz for Mozilla or -webkit for example while it works is not technically valid. Are these queries count as mobile first queries? Really impressive, CSS-Tricks, Im subscribing and look forward to gleaning a lot. If your site works then why do you care? Im trying to target the iPhone4 and below screen widths (and not the iPad2 and above screen widths). http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/7-habits-of-highly-effective-media-queries/. Im a bit confused. and (max-device-width : 1024px) @media only screen Im VERY impressed with this sites responsive design, not just how the content changes widths but the attention you guys have paid to EVERY piece of the UI, especially the nav and the banner ad. You an see the code here: I turned all these into LESS mixins enjoy : https://github.com/aliencreations/responsiveless, If any one have doubts and windows sizes etc Place this JavaScript alert to kwon all informations about window sizes(width and height) and device pixel ratio to help to develop better your mediaqueries. and also plz tell me that is this method can see in desktop browser? When I tested in landscape view it takes the default web browser screen width it is not device screen width. I am liking this approach thanks. Is it possible to target the iphone4+ with a separate media query than other smart phones with the same min/width size. The issue comes in the bleed-over of target sizes via min- and max-widths causing a layout fix on the touchscreen to break the layout on mobile devices. You can overcome this with some Javascript. example: The device is nested in the screen parameters. but below that . @f1ss1on: Youre parsing words there. Works like a charm! Hi, I have some question, in ipad protrait mode Any particular reason why screen is the target and not all as in. Thanks for posting and keep up the awesome work. any css extension that is rendering engine specific does not validate. Yeah, itd work with other devices, but it definitely works with the iPhone 4 and 4S. Everywhere else its 767px to 768px breakpoint between mobile and tablet. Also the pictures are responsive: When loading the page they are loaded according to your window size.