Text not sizing correctly on an iPhone - iphone

I'm trying to sort some cross browser compatibility issues with my company website, but I've hit a brick wall.
On an iPhone (4, 4s, 5, 5c and 5s), the navigation in the header is displayed incorrectly, and is not resizing with the rest of the page.
On other mobile platforms, in (I think) the most used browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Dolphin, Opera), the text re-sizes in relation to the rest of the site and fits correctly.
To fix the problem, I've tried setting the font-size property by both px and em, but the result is the same either way.
Is this a known issue with iPhones/Safari? If so, does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix it?
Here is the CSS for that section of the page -
#header-navigation{
bottom: -4px;
font-weight: bold;
position: absolute;
right: 1px;
}
#header-navigation ul.menu{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header-navigation li{
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0 14px;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
#header-navigation li.last{
padding-right: 0;
}
#header-navigation li a{
color: #6A737B;
font-size: 14px;
}
#header-navigation li a:hover,
#header-navigation li.current-menu-item a,
#header-navigation li.current-page-ancestor a{
border-bottom: 1px solid #C41E3A;
text-decoration: none;
}
Here is how the page looks on an iPhone5 (and here is what it should look like - http://www.dynedrewett.com).

use the font size like em it will work fine. and make sure to add meta view port
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;minimum-scale=0.5,
maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=1;" />
.example{
font-size:1.2em;
}

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Nothing had worked so far. What could be the cause?
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html,
body,
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}
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You haven't really defined clear wrappers for your content sections, which makes this a bit harder to get everything to align. You could put some left padding on the left footer element if you wanted to move it over a bit, as it doesn't look great right up against the edge of the screen.
Anyhow, the section with the quote marks (top pink arrow in your image) is moved right by 4px because of the left margin of 4px on the latest-news div. You'll see the same thing by narrowing your desktop browser.
First I think it's the difference between the android and ios browser that will explain the difference between the browsers. Mobile browsers use zooming to fit a website to the device screen. Source: http://davidwalsh.name/zoom-mobile-browsers
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable = yes">
I think it's better to change it, so that the browser zooming is removed.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
Second: there is an extra css rule that overrides your .container:
.page-template-front-page-2-php .container {
width: 971px !important;
}
Maybe the css rule is forced to fit the screen.
The .container contains floating elements. De #content .container uses a overflow: hidden, but the #home-feed and #footer .containers doesn't have this declaration. The overflow: hidden will force the parent div to "see" that there is content inside. There are some disadvantages, but maybe it will do the trick.
Extra tip: why don't you use a css framework with a grid system like Twitterbootstrap, Foundation or Groundwork ?

CSS div buttons not working on Iphone or Ipad

I am working on a web base app for my school with different versions of CSS for handheld, tablet and desktop. I am using media queries for this. The app is almost done and it works correctly on almost all browsers and android. The app looks awesome on Iphone/Ipad however buttons do not work making the app useless in these devices.
This is what I have:
//Source code
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padding: 8px;
margin: 0% auto 20% auto;
background-image:url(../../images/bluebar5.png);
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text-align: center;
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You can wrap your div around <a> like this. It's perfectly valid with html5 now.
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You just need to adjust
Reference:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/make-entire-div-clickable/
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I have a website (http://ukchina-trading.com/) with the following header:
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<div class='leftImage'>
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What is the best way to redo the header to stop this?
I'd suggest the best thing to do would be to bring the flags inside the 900px width of the website.
Keep them to the left and right of the "J Plus Trading" text but just use floats rather than absolute positioning.
your problem is the absolute positioning you are using, as this causes the images to be in the same position regardless of anything else on the page. instead of absolute try using float:left; and float:right on your left and right images, and this way the text will not be pushed over it. you may have to create extra containing divs with margins or padding so that the images are positioned how you want them

Font size renders different on iPhone

This one is messing with my head. The following HTML/CSS looks fine on every browser, expect when I read it on an iPhone. The text in the a tag(SITE DESIGN SOME COMPANY) is noticeably smaller by about 25%. I have gone up through the DOM and made sure no other styles are computing on my desktop.
<footer>
COPYRIGHT 2012 / <a href="http://somesite.com">
SITE DESIGN SOME COMPANY</a> / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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width: 100%;
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text-align: center;
word-spacing: 20px;
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footer {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
padding: 10px 0 10px 0;
left: 0px;
bottom: -50px;
text-align: center;
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Issue with webkit tap highlight color not being applied

I'm having trouble to get the -webkit-tap-highlight-color property to apply to a div - I'm at a loss as to why it isn't. Copying all the styles that apply to it below. The desired outcome is a back button as shown here: http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch03.html#ch03_id35932102
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text-align: center;
line-height: 28px;
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position: absolute;
top: 13px;
left: 6px;
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max-width: 50px;
white-space: nowrap;
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text-overflow: ellipsis;
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Thanks in advance.
Try adding:
-webkit-user-select: none;
This is embarrassing. The image I had been using from an example back button online had the background color in it - it wasn't a problem with the CSS property.
I'm almost embarrassed enough not to post this answer, but I'm willing to swallow my pride in hopes of helping others. Let this be a lesson: if you use example images from Google images, etc., be sure the copy you download looks as you expect it to.
I wish I could reclaim the hours I spent trying to debug this, but maybe this will help someone else gain them back.
Lesson learned... thoroughly.