iphone is adding a weird left margin/padding - iphone

This is a website with the mobile view.
The website width is 640px but the iPhone renders the document in 678px. In android it look great.
I added viewport meta:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640, user-scalable">
And the body CSS is:
body,html{
margin:0px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
padding:0px;
font-size:14px;
font-family: "Arial";
background: white;
direction: rtl;
text-align: right;
width:640px !important;
overflow: hidden;}
In iPhone it looks like this:
As you can see it adds 38 pixels on the left side, not related to the body (if I set the body background to blue the side still stays white).
I tried everything but with no luck.
Any ideas?

Firstly it would help to be starting with clean HTML and CSS—your HTML is far from valid, and that can cause all sorts of errors (see here just for the HTML errors...).
Secondly:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640, user-scalable">
is incorrect. It needs to be:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640, user-scalable=yes">
and it would be better practice if it was:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=yes">
(See here).
With a clean starting-point, it will be easier to debug. Also, turn on the Mobile Safari debug console and respond to any messages it gives you.

I finally found a solution.
These lines were added because of the right alignment on the body CSS:
text-align:right;
direction:rtl;
If I remove these lines and add them to a div inside the body it's working fine.

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iPhone zoomed in on page when opened

I've been working on my first responsive design, and I'm having some trouble when viewing it on my iPhone. When I open a page on the iPhone, it's a little zoomed in to the left – just enough to miss text on the far right.
You can find the website here. The viewport-meta tag looks like this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;" />
It looks fine on my computer and on my iPad. Any and all help is appreciated.
Try this viewport, it works great on my website:
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
Found it. I had put width:100%; and padding:0 10px; on the .wrapper element under #media only screen and (max-width: 600px). Changed it to width:96% and padding: 0 2%;, and it worked like a charm.
Thanks for the help!
See if you are using 100vh in your CSS anywhere. If you are using 100vh it counts the menu bar and bottom toolbar as part of the 100vh. See https://chanind.github.io/javascript/2019/09/28/avoid-100vh-on-mobile-web.html
Try to add width:100%; overflow:hidden; to both body and html elements. If your page load differently, its definitely a css issue.

Why font sizes (and other elements) appear so small on mobile devices

I am trying to create a special style sheet for mobile devices (for example - iphone).
I have in the main style sheet a rule like this one:
body
{
font-family: arial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px;
}
and for a certain header: (all of my fonts sizes are in em except for the body which defines all)
#header #PageTitle h1{
font-size: 4.5em;
}
When I see the big header on my iphone it looks quiet small - what should I do to see it in a bigger size? How can I apply to all of the elements a rule to "just be twice as bigger" (I tried resizing the font-size of body but that didn't work).
What am I doing wrong and how should it be done correctly?
I found this piece of code which disables scaling in the iphone:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
I am not sure if this is the exact solution (and it made everything look too big) - but this is half way there...
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none | auto | <percentage>;
So, twice as big would be: -webkit-text-size-adjust: 200%;
I would set the body set to 1em and then the headers, etc., set accordingly.

How can I disable MobileSafari's content scaling on orientation change?

I'm making a mobile version of my application support site and I have a little WebKit/iOS/HTML/CSS problem here...
I have a page, index.php, with mobile.css file attached. In my <head> tag I have:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, max-scale=1.0" />
My body's css:
body {
font-family:"HelveticaNeue-Light","Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue","Helvetica","Lucida Grande",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;
margin: 0;
background: url(../../images/textured_bg.png) repeat;
color:#454545;
font-size: 14px;
text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5) 0 1px;
width:100%;
}
Everything works fine in portrait orientation, but when I rotate my iPhone to landscape, Safari scales my content so it looks like in portrait, but a little bigger:
My question: Is there a way, without making custom css for each orientation, to force Safari not to scale my content?
The key part to fixing this isn't the meta viewport tag (though that's important, too, but for different reasons). Here's the magic that fixes the text size on orientation change.
html {
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
(I got this from StackExchange's mobile CSS file.)
You will probably want to use the <meta name="viewport" .../> tag (see MDN docs and Safari Web Content Guide). The mobile Stack Exchange layout uses this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0" />
I tried commas, didn't work - then tried semicolons, that DID work. iPod touch, iOS 4.2

getting content to play nice on iOS

my site is a small, 540x500px box centered on a page. iPhone and Blackberry are both cutting off the top of the content. I have it absolutely centered on the page. I've been messing with the meta viewport settings in hopes have getting the page's margins dealt with on other devices and have had some luck, but when it comes down to it i cant find a solution that combines both of my lines of code.
My code is below.. I've explored media queries, setting the meta to device-width (cuts off margins) and a host of other options. honestly, I know I'm being picky, and I've spent a stupid amo unt of time on this.
I need help!
First, the HTML
<div id="container">content</div>
CSS
#container {
width:540px;
height:500px;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin:-250px 0 0 -270px;
position:absolute;
}
Meta settings
<!--<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
cuts off top of content-->
<!--<meta name="viewport" content="width=580, height=540">
works for iPhone-->
<!--<meta name="viewport" content="width=540, height=500">
works for iPad-->
Apple recommends that any page below 980px be declared in width in your viewport settings.
http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html
Used a media query to adjust my negative margins for mobile use. 1024px is max resolution on an iPad.. which covers most tablets.
HTML heading
<meta name="viewport" content="width=500">
CSS heading
#media only screen
and (max-device-width:1024px) {
#container {
width:500px;
height:500px;
top:0;
left:0;
margin:0 auto;
position:static;
}
}
It looks like your negative top margin is cutting off the content.
I've found that mobile content works best when positioned in a linear, top down fashion.
If that is the only div on the page, use a mobile stylesheet to strip out the positioning, keeping only the width, height, and some smaller, simpler margins.
Then use something like <meta name="viewport" content="width=580">, setting only the width.
This has worked for me in the past.

Iphone and Blackberry specific width issues on mobile site

I recently have been working on a pilot mobile website for the company I work for. After performing a small alpha test, I came across several width issues for blackberries and iphones.
When you access my mobile site on a blackberry bold or an iphone, the width container is ending maybe 5-10% shy of the overall width of the view. On a blackberry curve, the container gets cut at maybe 50-60% of the overall width except for the speaker images on the homepage.
Here is the site:
http://www.iirusa.com/upload/wysiwyg/2011-P-Div/P1656/Mobile_web/home.html
I originally found this line of code to help resizing on an ipad, but have had no luck with blackberry/iphone specific issues.
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />
Just as a sidenote, I haven't experienced any width issues on any android devices.
Please help! And let me know if I can provide anymore information!
try this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1">
EDIT:
After further review, it looks like the issue is with the style on .bottom - it has a width of 100%, but a padding of 10px, so it will be 20px larger than the screen.
I also noticed there's a white bar below your content on the page, I assume you don't want that. It's fixed in the .container style below.
Here's an easy fix for that. Just replace the following styles:
.bottom {
background:#2D3192;
width:100%;
}
.bottom p {
font-size:.70em;
color:#FFF;
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight:400;
padding: 10px;
}
.container {
width:100%;
padding-top: 10px;
background:url(http://www.iirusa.com/upload/wysiwyg/2011-P-Div/P1656/Mobile_web/P1656_mobileBG.jpg) repeat-x #FFF;
margin:0;
top:0;
}
I left the old blocks in so you'll be able to just swap them out with your current ones.
Oh, and you can also change your meta back to:
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />
Hope that helps!