CSS Responsive change width in 100% - css

ISSUE SUMMARY:
Hi,
I just purchased Jomsocial + Template Socialize. I use RSForm for my landing page.
I have an image on left and the form on the right side on desktop view.
When I reduce browser to simulate Responsive view, the text come under image but has a width of 50%. This is the width necessary for destopview.
So I add some lines in /templates/socialize/css/template.css
#media (max-width: 480px) {
.div_image_homepage_right {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
BUT it doesn't work. width stay 50% instead of 100%. I tried with Chrome & Firefox.
Please see screenshot for better understanding.
Someone has an idea how to fix that?

Try this
#media only screen and (max-width : 480px) {
.div_image_homepage_right {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
I think the underlying issue is using max-device-width vs plain old max-width. Using the "device" keyword targets physical dimension of the screen, not the width of the browser window.
For example:
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
/* STYLES HERE for DEVICES with physical max-screen width of 480px */
}
Versus
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
/* STYLES HERE for BROWSER WINDOWS with a max-width of 480px. This will work on desktops when the window is narrowed. */
}

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Firefox, Windows DPI scaling and CSS max-width media query

I have a website where a media query decides whether to show the right-hand column, depending on browser width. CSS looks like this:
#media only screen and (max-width: 1152px) {
#column_right {display:none}
}
Recently, I was testing this on a Windows box where the DPI scaling is set to 125%. The resolution of the monitor is set to 1024x768. So in theory, because there are only 1024 CSS pixels available, I assume this would match the media query.
However, this is not the behavior that occurs! It seems that the media query looks not at the CSS pixels, but at device pixels, of which there are 1280 (1024 x 125%). This occurs only in Firefox so far, because Firefox uses the device pixel ratio set by Windows, while all the other browsers (including, bizarrely, Internet Explorer) use a default device pixel ratio of 1.0. I say that this is bizarre of IE because if there is one browser that should respect Windows settings, it is IE.
Anyway, why is it this way, and how would I work around it?
You could use max-device-width to hide the column if the screen resolution is below a certain width.
This example below would trigger the display: none media query if the screen resolution is up to 1024px wide. Above 1024px gets a green div.
div {
background: #F00;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
#media screen and (max-device-width: 1024px) {
div {
display: none;
}
}
#media screen and (min-device-width: 1024px) {
div {
background: green;
}
}
<div></div>

Website justed ignored all media queries on mobile

Website I've been working on just started ignoring all media queries. I can't seem to find the problem.
http://fnd.instinctdigitalmedia.com/
On the homepage the images under the 'Browse our Products" section shoud change based on screen width. at 320px, 480px, and 768px screen width it still shows the originals.
You must target the ancestor or parent to override what the previous query has done.
From 760px to override its style rule you should add call the parent #content of the img to override the rule in 760px
Example:
#content > img {width:25%;}
}
#media screen and (max-width : 480px){
#content > img {width:50%;}
}
#media screen and (max-width : 760px){
img {width:100%;}
}
There's a few issues I can see. Firstly, media queries aren't firing because:
There's a closing parenthese missing on line 899, flipping an error. To find this, I added my own media query showing something obvious, and pasted it at the top of the CSS, then further and further down until it stopped working.
Also, the mobile view failed because you are missing 'and' in your media query:
#media only screen (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 480px) {}
It should be:
#media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 480px) {
As for the width break itself, a handy trick with responsive designs is to limit this kind of issue from ever occurring before you even start styling (this is a rough guide, not a comprehensive list):
img, video, object, iframe, fieldset, table, form, article, section, header, nav, footer {
max-width:100% !important;
}
Even when respecifying the widths of your images, you are still using pixel widths instead of a relative measurement like percentages. This means the images will stay a static size and won't resize correctly to the screen no matter what.
Lastly, you are using a 'bracketed' approach for your media queries. This means rather than allowing your existing CSS to cascade down your media queries, saving you having to specify things twice that aren't going to change, you must repeat the same code many times.
For example, you currently have:
#media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1024px) {
.product-cat-1 {
position: relative;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto 10px auto;
width: 430px;
height: 150px;
background-image: url('http://localhost/firstnations/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/home-lighting.jpg');
}
}
Anything below 768px must be specified all over again. This leads to massive amounts of repeated code, and a lot of extra work for you. The simpler approach would be:
#media only screen and (max-width: 1024px) {
/* all styles for under 1024px */
}
Then for anything smaller:
#media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
/* only styles that need to change when under 768px wide */
}

Max width in media query does nothing

I'm trying to make my website design responsive.
So far, I've got the following rules:
#media screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
/* styles for screen width 1000px and wider */
}
#media screen and (min-width: 500px)and (max-width: 800px) {
/* styles for screen width between 500px and 800px */
}
For some reason, the last media query doesn't work. In fact, it completely strips all styles from every element on the page.
I've been looking around and I can't find any hint as to why this is or what I'm doing wrong...
I feel like I'm missing a concept or something... Everyone's talking to me about percentages, and while I'm taking that on board, I'm not seeing how it relates to the media queries not applying the style rules.
Can anyone provide any clarity?
Thanks in advance!
You don't have a closing comment tag.
#media screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
/* styles for screen width 1000px and wider */
}
#media screen and (min-width: 500px)and (max-width: 800px) {
/* styles for screen width between 500px and 800px */
}
Nothing else wrong here.

Media queries not taking effect on browser resize

I'm using media queries to make a mobile version of a website for a client. When i resize the browser the media queries do not take effect, however they do take effect when the site is viewed on each device - i'm just curious as to why the media queries don't take effect when i resize the browser window itself i.e. Firefox.
Any input is much appreciated.
Code i'm using:
#media only screen
and (min-device-width : 320px)
and (max-device-width : 720px) {
#container {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
If you are using attribute: max-device-width or min-device-width, it will work only on devices with that width and will ignore the manual browser resizing.
You should change the attribute to: max-width / min-width.
#media screen and (min-width: 1024px){
/* some CSS here */
}
Check here:
In CSS media the difference between width and device-width can be a bit
muddled, so lets expound on that a bit. device-width refers to the
width of the device itself, in other words, the screen resolution of
the device.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/cssmediaqueries2.shtml
change your code to -
#media only screen
and (min-width : 320px)
and (max-width : 720px) {
#container {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
alternately you can keep your previous code and check the responsive nature of your website in local computer by Mozilla Responsive Design View feature - shortcut 'Control+Shift+M'

Set minimum width for desktop layout only

I'm trying to create a responsive design using Twitter bootstrap. Everything is going well but I cannot figure out how to set a minimum width for desktop users.
When a user is on a desktop I don't want them to be able to shrink the browser to the point where they see responsive features meant for the phone (e.g. the navbar mobile button). I would rather just have a horizontal scroll bar when the browser gets too small. How can I get this functionality without affecting the mobile layout?
You can address this with a media-query. The only problem is that you have to set a fixed width for this, min-width doesn't seem to work in this case (tested in Firefox and Chrome). If this is fine for you, you can try the following example:
// Should be something > 1024
#media only screen and (min-device-width: 1300px) {
body {
width: 1300px;
}
}
To replicate the way that logicvault.com have their site working you would need to change the Bootstrap CSS so that you only have one media query which kicks in at 480px.
Here's the media query they have set:
#media only screen and (max-width: 480px){
// styles here
}
I was able to achieve this functionality by using Frederic's advice:
// Should be something > 1024
#media only screen and (min-device-width: 1024px) {
body {
min-width: 1025px;
}
}
However, I also needed to adjust the bootstrap responsive files so the styles were only applied to touch devices. I ended up including Modernizr on my page and looking for the touch class.
E.g. change:
#media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 979px) {
// Styles are here
}
to:
#media (device-min-width: 768px) and (device-max-width: 979px) {
.touch {
// Styles go here
}

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