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CSS

Posted by Milan Milosevic
Milan Milosevic
6,647 Points

Number of Media Queries

Just a simple question, is too many media queries bad? And what should be some optimal number of them? In terms of slowing down a site loading or something? I'm having seven breakpoints (media queries) in my code, all of them are putting in just one simple change of one element's margin. Is that ok?

Thanks in advance

2 Answers

Eric Ellenbrook
Eric Ellenbrook
9,006 Points
Eric Ellenbrook
Eric Ellenbrook
9,006 Points

In my opinion the number of media queries depends solely on the website that you have created. Some can get by with very few of them where some might need more media queries in order to make things look good.

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Treehouse has taught me that there's no one right or wrong answer to how many media queries you need.

My first strategy was to create as many media queries for the amount of device resolutions I wanted to target. Then I learned about fluid websites.

Basically you only need as many media queries as you have breakpoints. In responsive web design, a breakpoint is a point in your HTML/CSS in which elements overlap or don't look right. If a website doesn't look right at a certain viewport width, you should use a media query to try and put it right. :-)