Edit: I found out that the issue is exclusive to iPhones. I tested with an android device and it worked fine when I tried viewing the page on two different iPhones it broke on both.
This issue is mobile related, since when I shrink my browser window to the size of a mobile screen, everything looks fine. However, when I view the site on my actual mobile device, the drop shadow "breaks" at seemingly random places. If I zoom in and out these breaks will change their locations.
The current effect being used is
filter: drop-shadow(20px 10px 4px #707070);
After further research into this, I found that the issue was not specific to my website. If you go onto the Mozilla MDN Docs on a recent iPhone device, you'll notice that it gives you the exact same effect when zoomed in. I'm going to post this as an issue on Github as suggested in the docs. Here is what my mobile phone showed when viewing the Firefox Logo drop shadow effect.
As suggested in a comment, changing to a simple box-shadow fixed the issue, although the edges are more hard-lined and slightly less faded (using the same parameters). It's not enough to break this specific project and I know there are CSS features available that enhance this, so all is good!
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Morning all,
I need assistance with iPhone viewport issues. I have sifted through all kinds of posts, all from 8+ years ago. Some had a similar issue, some had the exact issue. Seems none actually found a fix.
I have developed a site and cannot for the life of me work out why only on iPhone the viewport is cutting off the left of the content. The site works as expected on android, macbook and desktop. I do not have access to an iPad. All completely responsive. When I say "cut-off" I mean you cannot scroll to the left at all.
I tested on an iPhone 8 and thought, ok, it is a bit old, probably just limited to older phones but alas, when I checked with friends on an iPhone X and 11 pro they both had the same issue. It is not an issue in landscape, only portrait.
Please see below screenshots:
Iphone issue where you can see that the content is shifted to the left
Galaxy S10 where you can see the content is centered as expected
As you can see from the above, it is like the phones are readying the viewport size correctly but they are shifting the content to the left. The banner at the top is set to width: 100%; and yet it does not stretch to the far right.
Also, bizarrely it seems that the nav is happily centered but all other content is not.
I am at a loss.
This must be a common issue with an easy fix that just isn't asked, I hope. I have built this using purely CSS and HTML so nothing fancy.
Entire code can be found here in my previously unanswered post which had a little less detail.
link to the site
For anyone in the future looking into this or a similar issue, it seems that iPhone's have challenges interpreting tags. This is not limited to Safari as I tested the code on Opera and firefox on an iPhone 8 and iPhone X and the same issue occured.
Not only did the CSS applied to the tag not take effect on the iPhone but it created some form of break in the page entirely.
tags are a little outdated as I understand however it added a nice aesthetic. Instead I created the same visual effect by entirely removing the tag and using bottom-border on the SVG.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
I've seen this question before, but the answer is evading me. There are four images on the front-page of the site http://miraishii.com. The top image, in the section displays fine, but the three within the second section don't. They are assigned images with id's gal-1, gal-2, gal-3.
The images display fine in desktop browsers, but neither iOS Safari nor iOS chrome will display the background-images. I'm using the Safari inspector to view the site, the images seem to be loading, but not displaying.
It is probably because fixed background images do not yet work in iOS yet. See How to replicate background-attachment fixed on iOS and see does a background-attachment of fixed work in iOS5?
My suggestion would be to use a media query to target mobile and do the background image in the boring way (just for smaller screens). My understanding is if you want fixed background position on mobile right now, you're going to be doing some hairy polyfills. I am sure the situation will improve over time.
I'm facing a problem I can't figure out how to solve. I'm almost sure this is a Chrome bug since in other browsers it works like a charm but I want to be sure. On my website, developed using a mobile first and responsive design approach, I have a menu that uses the Left Nav Flyout pattern. On Tablets and desktops, I show it full width.
When I load the website on my smartphone (specifically an Android device) using Chrome in Portrait mode, once I rotate the device (passing in Landscape mode) and start to scroll the page, as soon as I reach the menu position, the latter magically disappears. What is really strange is that if you try to click the space that now is completely white, you can see that the links are actually there. I tried to use the inspector to find the problem but didn't succeed.
So, wow can I solve the problem? Anyone else had this issue before? If you know it's a bug, I'm glad to add a temporary workaround as well.
I didn't find a real solution but a reasonable workaround. Of course, I still hope that someone will explain what's the cause of this issue and how to solve it.
In the meantime, I found that the problem occurs because the menu, 240px wide, is completely out of the viewport. In fact, as soon as I changed the margin-left to 239.5px the menu didn't disappear anymore.
I built a website that works great on Firefox, IE, and Chrome. Client goes to a tradeshow and realizes the website menu went bonkers in their iPad.
broken menu http://www.glassdoctordenvermetro.com/wp-content/themes/GDDenverTheme/images/photo.JPG
I tried a website that lets you preview your design by simulating it in case you don't have an iPad (like me). But the problem is it looks fine:
http://ipadpreview.com/previewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fglassdoctordenvermetro.com%2F
What would suggest I do to figure this out? Is it a problem with the font being different on every browser perhaps? The width of the tab changes based on the menu font and wording but again, it looks fine on all other browsers I tested.
Thank you
Opening it an iPad simulator shows that the font is a much wider font and there's also greater letter spacing. You should specify more options in the font-family tag to have another more condensed font that is available on iOS. You could also bring the font-size down on iOS. The big issue with the testing site you're using is that it's still outputting HTML, the only trustworthy type of site like that would have to generate a screenshot image to ensure consistency.
Here's some fonts to help: http://iosfonts.com/
And 11px works with the existing font.
Alternately, removing the uppercase transform makes it fit.
I've been working on a website for a little while now, doing most of my testing in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. As I'm wrapping things up, I've tried viewing it in Safari (on Mac, iPad, and iPhone). I've noticed that certain elements are misplaced in Safari. I've tried playing with the CSS, but I've had no luck.
The page can be viewed here - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/
See specifically the logo (being pushed down into the banner), the font of the tagline in the banner (wrapping beyond the banner and extending too far to the left), the 'Featured Work' title wrapping, the project names wrapping, and the footer wrapping.
Here is how the page should look - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/images/chrome.png
To see how it looks on my iPhone, change the link above to .../iphone.png
Any help is appreciated.
The issue is (I think) that you have your browser's text zoomed in.
I loaded the page in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS 10.7.3, and it loaded fine initially. When I zoomed normally, the layout stayed intact. As soon as I tried zooming just the text, the layout broke per your description.
That being said, you may want to think hard about how to make the layout more 'flexible' in the event a user does have their text size increased. In IE, for example, the default zoom is full page zoom, but a user can still increase their text size apart from zooming. It's worth testing your layout in those situations to make sure it doesn't completely derail. I'm not saying it has to be perfect, but still legible.
One idea is to try out different units. I've found that when declaring horizontal lengths (e.g. margin-left) using relative measurements works, but when declaring vertical lengths, (e.g. margin-top) using pixel measurements works better. For super critical items, like the site logo, positon:absolute may be a good route to try.