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Posted by justinw
justinw
14,517 Points

Responsive Website - Hover Popup for Tablets

I've created a responsive website for a client and he has requested that certain icons on hover will display a brief description. In my experience if I implement this request, tablets can not hover so you have to click the icon to see the description and click again on the icon to transfer to the actual page. Is there a way to implement a hover on screen sizes larger than tablets, and no hover on tablets?

2 Answers

Janek Rezner
Janek Rezner
12,973 Points
Janek Rezner
Janek Rezner
12,973 Points

you could add hover state to media query for desktop devices only?

or use modernizr to detect touch device and only then remove hover rule?

Janek Rezner
Janek Rezner
12,973 Points

like this:

@media screen and (max-width:700px) { /*  overwrite hover styles  */ }

and also:

@media screen { /* overwrite hover styles  */ } 

@media handheld { /* add hover styles */ }

it should work I think

justinw
justinw
14,517 Points
justinw
justinw
14,517 Points

I totally forgot that I could use a @media query for screens vs. handheld. This will definitely help and I wish I would have asked this a week ago now. Thanks