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Posted by kathleen de Villiers
kathleen de Villiers
4,912 Points

responsive design flaw

Hello I have designed my very first website from scratch so I was expecting many problems. My first problem is the responsive design department. For some reason it works on the preview but now that I have uploaded it onto my domain it has messed it all up and is not using my media queries at all. It also replaces the font on my SVG icons which is weird since they are images. But only on mobile, on PC the website is 100% how I thought it would be. SO I am assuming I have completely stuffed up my media queries. Do not be surprised if you see some really creative and ridiculous coding. Please help me if possible! Thank you

Website: www.pixel9design.co.za

HTML:

<!doctype html>

<html>

<head>

<meta charset="UTF-8">

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=0.5, minimal-ui">

<link href="css/normalize.css" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Qwigley" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<title>Pixel 9 Design | Graphic, Art & Website Design</title>

</head>

<body>

<header class="head section">

<nav>

<ul>

<h1 class="logomobile"> <img src="img/p9logo.svg" alt="logo"> </h1>


    <h1 class="logo"> Pixel 9 Design </h1>

        <li> <a href="index.html"> Home </a> </li>

        <li> <a href="contact.html"> Contact </a> </li>

        <li> <a href="gallery.html"> Gallery </a></li>

</ul>


</nav>

</header>

<h1 class="firsthead"> How can we assist you today? </h1>

<div class="wrapper">

<div>

<a href ="artpage.html">

<img src="img/paintbrush.svg"  class="hvr-pulse-shrink" alt="design">

</a>

</div>

<div>

<a href ="design.html">

<img src="img/computericon.svg"  class="hvr-pulse-shrink" alt="online">

</a>

</div>

<div>

<a href ="gallery.html">

<img src="img/othericon.svg"   class="hvr-pulse-shrink" alt="other">

</a>

</div>

</div>

<footer>

<p> &copy Pixel 9 Design </p>

</footer>

</body>

</html>

Media queries:

@media (max-width:960px) {

.logo {

width: 40%;

    font-size: 2.95em;

margin-top: 25px;

}

nav li {

list-style:none;

display: inline-block;

float: right;

margin-right: 5px;

margin-top: 20px;

color: white;

border: solid 1px white;

padding: 20px 0;

font-weight: 100;

}

.contact {

padding: 30px 0 30px 80px;

}

.firsthead {

font-size: 1.25em;

}

}

@media (max-width:600px) {

.logo {

    display:none;

}


.logomobile {

    width: 100px;

    height: 100px;  

    display:inline-flex;    

    margin-left: -230px;

    margin-top: 0;


}


.wrapper {

display: block;

}

.wrapper > div {

justify-content: center;

align-items: centre;

width: 100%; }

.wrapper img {

width: 90%;

margin-top: 0;

margin: -20px 0px;

}

footer{

position:fixed;

}

.designpar{

font-size: 0.825em;

}

.contact {

padding: 10%;

text-align:justify;

font-size: 0.825em;

}

.firsthead {

padding: 10px 10px;

}

}

@media (max-width:400px) {

.logomobile {


    margin-left: -280px;

    margin-top: 10px;

    width: 80px;

    height: 80px;


}


nav li {

list-style:none;

display: inline-block;

float: right;

margin-right: 5px;

margin-top: 20px;

color: white;

border: none;

padding: 20px 0;

font-weight: 100;

max-width: 80px;

}

.designpar {

font-size: 0.625em;

text-align: justify;

}

.designpar::first-letter {

float:left;

font-size:30px;

line-height: 1;

font-weight: 100;

margin-right: 2px;

}

.firsthead {

font-size: 1em;

}

footer {

position:fixed;

}

.inkart img{

max-width: 100%;

}

}

1 Answer

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

Hi Kathleen, which mobile phone you're using for testing? Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8? These systems require extra code.

Beginning of your css

@-webkit-viewport   { width: device-width; }
@-moz-viewport      { width: device-width; }
@-ms-viewport       { width: device-width; }
@-o-viewport        { width: device-width; }
@viewport           { width: device-width; }

Just before closing body tag on all pages

<script>
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/IEMobile\/10\.0/)) {
  var msViewportStyle = document.createElement('style')
  msViewportStyle.appendChild(
    document.createTextNode(
      '@-ms-viewport{width:auto!important}'
    )
  )
  document.querySelector('head').appendChild(msViewportStyle)
}
</script>
kathleen de Villiers
kathleen de Villiers
4,912 Points

I am using my iPhone - safari. Unfortunately the code you have given me to add in hasn't made a difference

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

Well if your code works on desktop, it sure should work on IOS as well if you're browsing exactly the same url. Those codes are not needed by IOS at all, mostly for Windows Phones.

kathleen de Villiers
kathleen de Villiers
4,912 Points

Yes exactly so not sure why it is not working like it did when I tested the preview on dreamweaver but not when on the actual website url

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

Found the reason for this. Change your viewport meta tag to

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
kathleen de Villiers
kathleen de Villiers
4,912 Points

Yes! thank you!