So I've built a site specifically for iphones that is 320px wide. It looks great in portrait orientation, but there is a ton of white space on the right when it is turned into landscape mode on the iphone.
I'd like to figure out how to make the viewport zoom into view just the 320px in landscape orientation. This way, there isn't a ton of white space.
I suspect it has something to do with viewport. This is what I currently have:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,user-scalable=no" />
But that's not working. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brad
Try removing "user-scalable=no", or define "maximum-scale"
It is preferable to define width (of div's etc') in percentage instead of defined pixels. That way the width adjusts to the size of the screen automatically.
There are many good tutorials on responsive design.
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My site has a fixed layout with a size of 1090px.
When I use this meta tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1">
the page will load zoomed in. Not all the way though (roughly 300px in width are out of view).
Also, you can not zoom the page out far enough to see the whole thing.
Shouldn't the width=device-width solve that?
So I tried an initial-scale of 0.29, which worked fine for the iPhone. But when loading the site on an iPad, it would obviously be way too small.
How can I fix this?
UPDATE:
So I just figured, that the width seems to be defined by the height of my page.
Safari on the iPhone fits the height in the viewport and doesn't care about fitting the width, also won't let you zoom out to see the whole width. It seem like if the page would be higher, you could see more of the width.
The width is just fine in landscape.
If your design is not responsive, It is better to target particular device resolution like for 320 width I would go for <meta name="viewport" content="width=320">
I have also noticed that content set as device width tend to break on ios 4 safari. I am afraid it's not the problem of ios safari it's the non-responsive design that causing the problem.
Also if the design is not responsive, then using this combination is worst
user-scalable=no or maximum-scale=1 with initial-scale=1
playing with initial scale will not solve the problem for all the devices.
I asked a question and received an answer regarding sizing images for mobile browsers.
The answer provided works for inline images. However, I need to use background images as part of a header, as well. They're set via css classes. On android, they scale correctly in both portrait and landscape, but on iPhone they automatically zoom in when turning from portrait to landscape. This is a problem. I have a viewport tag set like so:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
Apparently when the iPhone (at least the newest versions) are turned to landscape mode, it rescales and zooms in really huge, rather than just repeating the background more times to account for the wider screen.
Here's what my code looks like:
<tr><td colspan="2" class="logoHeader"><img src="/images/mobile/logoCopy.png" /></td></tr>
where class logoHeader looks like this:
td.logoHeader {
background: url(/images/mobile/transparentLeavesRight.png) top right no-repeat,
url(/images/mobile/transparentLeavesGradient.png) top left repeat-x;
text-align:center;
}
Any ideas? I know that I can add the user-scalable property of the viewport meta, but we don't want to prevent users from manually zooming if necessary. We just want to prevent it from automatically zooming when the phone is turned into landscape mode.
FYI: I did search and found this and this, which are pretty much asking the same question. But they're both a number of months old, and neither has an actual answer to the problem, so I'm hoping that someone has come up with something in the interim.
to avoid rescaling when orientation changes try
<meta name='viewport' content='width=1024' />
and adjust width for your needs. If this won't work on android correctly, you can always send different viewport tag by PHP+user agent detection, or set it on device by javascript.
Change the viewport to:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale="selfrender"/>
I'm building an iphone version of a website and was curious of the best practices for choosing image sizes. I'm making a simple vertical column of images text. I originally thought that 300px would be the best size (320px portrait mode minus 10px margin each side). However when user rotates to landscape the images will now seem blurry & upscaled. The alternative is to make the images larger, but then in portrait mode they will all need downscaling- does this make the page load slower? I assumed most people view in portrait.
If I go with landscape/480px as the base size what viewport meta should I use to get it to size down for portrait? My current viewport meta tag is :
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />
Many thanks in advance
On the iPad, I present a view in the "detail" side of a split view controller that is basically just a UIWebView, which loads an HTML file in the application bundle. The application supports rotation and hides/shows the "master" side of the split as appropriate.
When the UIWebView is initially loaded in landscape mode, its content seems to be "sized" properly... the content is taller than the screen, so you can scroll vertically, but not horizontally. (The HTML content is nearly all text styled with CSS, with only a small ~300x50 image at the bottom.)
If you then rotate the screen to portrait, the HTML content still seems to be sized okay -- vertical scrollbar is present, but not horizontal, as it was initially. Rotating back to landscape and everything is still peachy.
So far, so good.
Now, if the UIWebView initially loads in portrait orientation, everything is also "sized" properly (vertical scrollbar, no horizontal). But, if you rotate it to landscape, the content suddenly gets a horizontal scrollbar, because one of the paragraphs of text is wider than the width of the UIWebView. (Not coincidentally, I'm sure, but that long paragraph is sized perfectly for the slightly larger width the UIWebView has when it's oriented as portrait.)
I was expecting/assuming that rotation of the iPad would cause the UIWebView to have its frame be resized, and when it's resized, to also resize its HTML content appropriately. (Think of taking a Web browser window and shrinking it.) Why isn't that happening for me?
I would like to avoid using the "Scales Pages to Fit" property because the text shrinks non-deterministically.
Just solved my issue with this by adding this HTML5 Viewport meta tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
to the head section of my HTML, maybe a variation of this meta tag may help?
Although my issue was triggered when my app was started in landscape mode, while yours in portrait mode, it may be a common cause.
I also had another funny issue with the webView in iPad and the common solution seems to be that meta tag:
iPad Simulator WebView/Google Maps API Issue
It's also possible to deal with this by putting
[myWebView reload];
into the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method
-- but if you're on a 3G connection this can be slow
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the iPad/iPhone scaling their background images down to fit the view port.
In my case, I'm swapping out background images via javascript, and the new background images are super wide to fit large displays. However, the iPad is scaling down the background images that are added to the DOM via javascript. I solved this by using "-webkit-background-size" set to the size that the image should be, but this causes the background image to be stretched and pixelated.
This worked for on iPad:
-webkit-background-size: length_x length_y;
The iphoneOS scales every picture with above 2 million pixels (width*height) 50% down.
I managed it with spliting the background into two pictures.
All you have to do is add this meta tag within the of your pages to prevent the background image from being scaled.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
First of all, if you export your image as a 32 bit png (I use Fireworks to do so), and use that png in your background instead of a jpg file, IOS won't scale the image. Works like a charm, and the size is about the same as a jpg with 100% quality (slightly smaller actually)
Also, aditionally for a better experience in ipad / iphone, you should:
a) set a min with do the body tag (mine is usually 980px)
body {
min-width: 980px;
}
b) set the same width to the viewport meta tag
<meta name="viewport" content="width=980px">
Users should now be able to:
- see the design as you have created it
- zoom the content (wich they couldn't if you used "initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" on the viewport meta tag)
- change the device landscape to portrait and vice versa with no issues