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Christopher Anderson
1,601 PointsWhat is <meta name="viewpoint" content="width=device-width, intial-scale=1.0">
What is <meta name="viewpoint" content="width=device-width, intial-scale=1.0"> and what does it do
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anil rahman
7,786 PointsThe meta tag helps control the mobile layout of the webpage. The first part, viewport is the users visible area of the web page. The viewport will vary between devices and be smaller on mobile. This meta tag basically helps let us take control of this viewport.
width=device-width sets the webpages width to the width of the device screen. initial-scale=1.0 sets the initial zoom level of the webpage when it's loaded.
Without this meta tag you would notice everything on a mobile would be very small and squeezed to fit the content to look the same as it does on a monitor.
But also the meta tag itself is a lot more than that. It is like information about your webpage and also helps with search engine optimisation for your webpage.
:)
James Anwyl
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 49,960 PointsGood explanation from Anil, you might find these links useful as well:
Also check out the CSS Basics course on Treehouse. It's covered in this video
Hope this helps :)
Christopher Anderson
1,601 PointsThank you very much.