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Posted by John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points

Uploaded site but it is not responsive when checking on mobile devices

I uploaded my site and when checking it on the desktop it is responsive but when I check it on my phone it is not responsive. What could be the problem for this? Thanks in advance

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'm going to take a wild guess (from experience) that you never set your viewport.

Make sure this is between the <head></head> tags

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
tylerpostuma2
tylerpostuma2
5,175 Points
tylerpostuma2
tylerpostuma2
5,175 Points

Is there anyway that you could have set the width wrong in the media queries? Or are you using bootstrap or something similar to that?

John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points
John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points

I set it to 320px, 360px and 375px which should be fine for the iphone. It works when I reduce the width to these sizes on a desktop computer but when I checked it on my phone it only showed the full desktop version so I dont understand why this is happening as the media queries work on the desktop.

John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points
John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points

Thanks Kevin, that solved my problem.