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JavaScript

Posted by James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points

Twitter widget <script> breaks layout on iphone. Anyway to remove js script on iphone, media query maybe? Please help..

When adding a twitter feed to the website the layout has a right margin on iphone, is there a way to remove the script completely as display:none etc does not work.

Is there a way to target through media queries. It is the code pulled from twitter.com > create a widget so surely someone else has this problem, cant find any other cases tho like it.

2 Answers

Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points

Hey James:

I'm not too familiar with the Twitter widget, but if it is just a script tag you add to your page, you can set your code up to check the screen size and add the script if the screen is big enough.

For example, in a different script you can do a check on page load:

window.onload = function () {
    if (window.innerWidth > 1000) { // Set width as appropriate
        var script = document.createElement('script');
        script.src= '/path/to/twitter/widget/script';
        document.body.appendChild(script); // Adds the script tag to the bottom of the page.
    }
};

So if your window width is greater than 1000, the script gets added and your page will fetch the script for you, otherwise its not included.

That should be a quick and dirty way to do what you need.

Hope that helps!

-Andrew

James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points

That is fantastic thanks very much however bit of a beginner so what does this mean '/path/to/twitter/widget/script' would i put the path to a separate js file with the twiter code inside?

Thanks again

Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points
Andrew Kiernan
Andrew Kiernan
26,892 Points

Correct, you would add the twitter code to a separate file.

The path stuff just means to add the path to that file you put the code in. For example, if I had one on my site, and I put the widget code in a file called myWidget.js, and put that in a folder called scripts, the path to it would be scripts/myWidget.js. So you would use that as the path:

script.src = 'scripts/myWidget.js';

Let me know if you have any other questions.

-Andrew

James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points

Worked a treat, thank you, thank you, thank you kind sir... true legend. Saves me using a hacky negative margin etc lol.