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CSS

Posted by Andreas Nyström
Andreas Nyström
8,887 Points

Why isn't the viewport meta-tag in the index file?

Hi I'm doing "CSS Layout Basics" now and..

I noticed you told us that the new browsers have a feature "toggle device toolbar". This is very handy when doing responsive designs. So my question is why isn't

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

included in the index-file? I know I can just add it myself, but doing that every time I launch the workspace seems unnecessary since it should be included from the beginning.

Other than that - thanks for awesome lecturing. Keep up the good work!

// A

1 Answer

Flor Antara
Flor Antara
12,372 Points
Flor Antara
Flor Antara
12,372 Points

Hi There!

It's really a good thing that they are creating the habit of manually placing that meta tag. It will fix it in your mind and you'll never struggle with it in a real project.

Been there, suffered that. :)

Andreas Nyström
Andreas Nyström
8,887 Points

With that in mind, we shouldn't have a boilerplate for any html, no csslinks or any other script links. Also in later courses they started adding it, this is why I wondered about it.

Thanks for the answer :).