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Kendall Chung
Kendall Chung
9,511 Points

768px and 769px? 1024px and 1025px?

Hello all!

I was wondering if there is a reason behind choosing 768px or 769px and 1024px or 1025px for web design when making the website responsive? or is it just a preference?

THANKS!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

It depends on how they are used.

A max-width of 768 and a min-width of 769 are two sides of the same breakpoint.

If they are both used as min-width, 768 would be "an iPad or larger", and 769 would be "anything larger than an iPad in portrait orientation".

Too bad you can't share a link to the video (well, you can, but only another techdegree student can use it).

Kendall Chung
Kendall Chung
9,511 Points

thanks very much! that was the answer I was looking for.

oh really? I did not know that.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

:point_right: These are the screen widths of common devices.

These particular dimensions are probably based on an iPad.

Kendall Chung
Kendall Chung
9,511 Points

yeah but I am doing the techdegree and in the videos the teachers are using 769. but in the assignment, they are telling us to scale it to 768. I was wondering if there was a correlation? Sorry I was probably not specific enough. Not splitting hairs just really curious. Thanks!