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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Adding Breakpoints for Devices

Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points
Posted by Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points

How to make responsive.css work in Safari?

Hi All

I have tested my code and it works fine in Chrome, however when re-sizing the browser in safari, none of the responsive changes take place. Any sugestions?

Jennifer Nordell
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What version is your Safari? According to caniuse.com media queries aren't supported until Safari 9.

Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points

Hi Jennifer

Mine is Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4)

Thanks

Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points
Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points

Hi Jeremy, are you saying that literally nothing is changing at all, or things are not changing as expected.

Make a simple media query and place inside it body{ display:none; } If the body disappears you know that the media queries are not working at all. If this does work then we know something isn't working like it should.

Either way it will help to break down the issue.

Also could you provide the code used in responsive.css so we can check there are not any unexpected errors

Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points

Hi Matthew

The body code removed everything. However the test background colours made the back ground permanently blue, no colour changed when manipulating the browser size. Again this did however work as expected in Chrome.

It seems odd that the body display;none; worked perfectly.

Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points
Matthew Smart
Matthew Smart
12,567 Points

So we know that your media queries will work. I would image that it there is a problem with your CSS somewhere that safari isn't handling to well. In order for us to figure this out we would need you to post your full css file with the html. This will allow us to replicate the issue and find a solution.

Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson
1,968 Points

Hi Matt thanks, see below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> 
  <head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Jeremy Dawson | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,400italic,700,700italic,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=deivce-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  </head>
 <body>
   <header>
     <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Jeremy Dawson</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
     </a>
     <nav>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
        <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
        <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
       </ul>
     </nav>
   </header>
   <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
       <ul id="gallery">
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with colour and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
         <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
         <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80"s style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
         <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
         <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
     </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/atplfinance"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com.com/atplfinance"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2015 Jeremy Dawson</p>
     </footer>
     </div>
 </body>
</html>

/*************************
GENERAL
*************************/

body {
  font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

h3 {
  margin: 0 0 1em 0;
}



/*************************
Heading
*************************/

header {
  float:left;
  margin: 0 0 30px 0;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  width: 100%;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  font-family: 'changa one', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin : -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}



/*************************
NAVIGATION
*************************/

nav {
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}



/*************************
FOOTER
*************************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  clear:both;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color: #ccc;
}

.social-icon {
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  margin: 0 5px;
}


/*************************
PAGE: PORTFOLIO
*************************/

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;  
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

#gallery li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}



/*************************
PAGE: ABOUT
*************************/

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  max-width: 300px;
  max-height: 300px;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
  border-radius: 200px;
}



/*************************
PAGE: CONTACT
*************************/

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

.contact-info li.phone a{
  background-image: url('../img/phone.png');
}

.contact-info li.mail a{
  background-image: url('../img/mail.png');
}

.contact-info li.twitter a{
  background-image: url('../img/twitter.png');
}


/*************************
Colours
*************************/

/* site body */
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}

/* green header */
header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile */
nav {
  background: #599a68;
}

/* logo text */
h1,h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/* links */
a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

/* nav link */
nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {

  /*************************
  TWO COLUMN LAYOUT
  *************************/

  #primary {
    width: 50%;
    float: left;
  }

  #secondary {
    width: 40%;
    float: right;
  }
}



/*************************
  PAGE: PORTFOLIO
  *************************/

#gallery li {
  width: 28.3333%;
}

#gallery li:nth-child(4n) {
  clear: left;
}



/*************************
  PAGE: ABOUT
  *************************/

.profile-photo {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 5% 80px 0;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 660px) {

  /*************************
  HEADER
  *************************/

  nav {
    background: none;
    float: right;
    font-size: 1.125em;
    margin-right: 5%;
    text-align: right;
    width: 45%;
  }

  #logo {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 5%;
    text-align: left;
    width: 45%;
  }

  h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
  }

   h2 {
    font-size: 0.825em;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
  }

  header {
    border-bottom: 5px solid #599a68;
    margin-bottom: 60px;
  }
}

1 Answer

Edwin Rivera
Edwin Rivera
30 Points
Edwin Rivera
Edwin Rivera
30 Points

Tried myself as well. On my desktop that is running windows with chrome. Code checks out but on safari on mac i can't get the screen to go small enough. Guess its a bit of a pain but nothing too hard to get around.