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Mark Bacolcol
7,354 PointsMobile Site is Not Filling Screen?
Despite adding...:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
...in the HTML head, when viewing the site portrait on mobile (iPhone) it doesn't fill the width of the screen. The entire page is scaled but it only takes up 70ish% of the screen and remaining is a white bar to the right. I have elements that are set to 100% width, so I don't think that's the issue. How can this be fixed?
Thanks
Julie Myers
7,627 PointsTake maximum-scale attribute out, so your meta tag looks like this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
The initial-scale attribute controls the zoom level when the page is first loaded.
The maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable attributes control how users are allowed to zoom the page in or out. You typically don't want to set these, as they tend to be buggy.
See this link for more info: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_viewport.asp
Mark Bacolcol
7,354 PointsThanks for the answer, turns out I had to work on my media queries.
Mark Bacolcol
7,354 PointsMark Bacolcol
7,354 PointsUpdate - It actually works out better removing the meta tag. But it's weird that what I see on mobile is different from what I see after resizing a browser window on desktop. If someone could explain this, that would be great.