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CSS How to Make a Website Sharing a Website Upload the Website

Heather Woods
Heather Woods
5,330 Points
Posted by Heather Woods
Heather Woods
5,330 Points

The mobile version of my site on my phone looks the same as the desktop version.

When I resize my browser window on my laptop the layout of the page changes as it's supposed to. When I go to my site on my cell phone, It has the full screen desktop version. What's the problem?

2 Answers

Cat Carbonell
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Cat Carbonell
Courses Plus Student 8,899 Points
Cat Carbonell
Cat Carbonell
Courses Plus Student 8,899 Points

Have you tried utilizing media queries in your CSS? You might also need to add a viewport meta tag in the head of your HTML.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
Micheal Allen
Micheal Allen
19,311 Points
Micheal Allen
Micheal Allen
19,311 Points

If you are using a fixed width for the container : eg width:1000px; then this wont work. Try make it a percentage instead. eg: width: 100%;

next make sure you have the viewport meta tag included, heres one straight from bootstrap. 

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

The user scalable part helps prevent users from "pinching" their screen to zoom in and out whilst viewing your site.

Hope this helps!

  • Mike