Chrome will increase the font size when zooming out - css

I have the following code :
CSS
#container{
font-size: 0.625em;
}
#div1 {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: green;
}
#div2 {
width: 20em;
height: 20em;
background-color: red;
}
HTML
<div id="container">
<div id="div1">
This is a test message.This is a test message.This is a test message.This is a test message.
</div>
<div id="div2">
This is a test message.This is a test message.This is a test message.This is a test message.
</div>
</div>
Chrome Version
Version 35.0.1916.153 m
When you zoom to 50% or smaller in Chrome, the size of the two divs will become different.
If your check the font-size in dev tool, your will realize that
Chrome automatically increased the font-size of the document.
Can anybody tell me why this happens?
And how could I prevent it?
I am doing some research on the difference of em and px, so change the width of #div2 to 200px is not acceptable.
JsFiddle Link
Updated the content and source.
Thank you for your help.
Updated June 16th, 2014
Found something interesting and wanna share with you guys here.
If you had ever touched the "Advanced font settings" in Chrome, or using an default version(not Chinese or Japanese):
you will never be allowed to set font-size to some number smaller than 6px(in Chinese or Japanese version it will be 12px).
1em will never go smaller than 6px(12px), when you measure something like "height" with "em".
if you set a text to 6px, and zoom to 50%, you may expect to see the text rendered like 3px(become to half). But the text will be set to 12px by chrome, and may break your layout.
Thanks to Dawar Husain. He helps me realize the minimum font size thing.

See, you used px for the first div and em for the second.
Chrome has a minimum font size and fonts smaller than it will be displayed as that font size only. (see your Chrome Settings)
Now, using div with px, the box goes on and becomes even smaller on zooming at 33% (or 25% or 50%) but using em, the box remains the same size when the minimum font-size has been reached. see
em is useful on browsers which implement zooming by scaling the font size like Chrome. So if you size all your elements using em they scale accordingly.
em makes sure that the whole content is displayed as it is even if the size of div changes (on zooming). Hope you got your answer :)
EDIT
In IE10, there's no minimum font size in settings as in GC35. So the em px render like each other.

The divs has different width.
10em is not always equivalent to 100px
try setting the same width (em or px)
An em is equal to the current font-size, for instance, if the
font-size of the document is 12pt, 1em is equal to 12pt
One pixel is equal to one dot on the computer screen
refer this page for documentation
your updated fiddle here
body {
font-size: 0.625em;
}
#div1 {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: green;
}
#div2 {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: red;
}
update
if it doesn't work try with this css property
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

Related

Elements aren't displaying correctly using VW

I'm trying to position elements in a way so that when the browser width is changed, the webpage will scale everything in proportion, but what happens is that they shift a little. I don't understand why. I can adjust this okay using media queries, but they change drastically in mobile browsers. To illustrate what I'm talking about, I created an example in which I'm trying to keep this black text centered inside this green box. From my example, you'll see that scaling the browser on a desktop will keep the text in the box centered pretty well, but when switching to a mobile browser, the text will go out of the box. What can I do to keep it scaling correctly?
I realize that I can just fill the text div with a green background, but you have to understand that this is just an example of what I'm trying to do. The real webpage is much more sophisticated, so that will not be an option. I need to make sure that these divs scale appropriately. Thank you.
I provided an image to show the problem that I'm getting in my phone browser. It's a bit small, but you can see how the black text dips below the green box.
The example website: http://www.marifysworld.com
CSS:
#viewport {
width: device-width;
zoom: 1.0}
#-ms-viewport {
width: device-width}
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #fffff}
img {
display: block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px}
.text {
font-size: 2.25vw;
color: #000000;
text-align: center;
text-size-adjust: 90%}
.box {
width: 23.75%;
height: auto;
position: absolute;
left: 25%;
top: 40vw}
.divtext {
width: 20%;
height: auto;
position: absolute;
left: 26.75%;
top: 42.5vw}
HTML:
<img class="box" src="http://www.marifysworld.com/images/platform/box.jpg" />
<div class="divtext text">
Why won't this div of text stay in the center of the block in mobile browsers?
</div>
Well, you are using positions for your design but it is confusing and not possible.
Here is an idea to make this design work.
Just try it...
HTML:
<div class="box">
<div class="divtext text">
Why won't this div of text stay in the center of the block in mobile browsers?
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#viewport {
width: device-width;
zoom: 1.0}
#-ms-viewport {
width: device-width}
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #fffff;
}
.box{
background: url('http://www.marifysworld.com/images/platform/box.jpg');
width: 23.75%;
margin: auto;
margin-top: 20%;
}
.divtext {
width: 90%;
padding: 5% 0;
margin: auto;
}
.text {
font-size: 2.25vw;
color: #000000;
text-align: center;
}
Update: initially I thought the problem might be the (not universally supported) text-size-adjust property, but it seems this is unlikely. I leave those thoughts below just in case they are useful to someone else using that property.
Having been unable to reproduce the problem myself but seeing the useful image now put into the question I think we have to look at the actual font and how it is sized and using space. There are quite a few factors which maybe the browsers are setting different defaults for. Here's a few, there may well be more:
font-family - most obvious but is whichever browser is causing the problem using the same default font as browsers not causing the problem? Try setting a specific font and see what happens
Different fonts will take different widths for different characters. Try a monospace font - that will probably overflow - just to demonstrate the issue
kerning - no I don't fully understand how different fonts use it and what they mean by 'normal' (which is probably the browser's default) but that will also alter the space used as will...
..line height - perhaps that needs to be specifically set
font-weight will alter the space used - do all browsers/systems interpret say 400 exactly the same way
I guess there's loads more that may differ between browsers - for example how exactly do they calculate the spacing needed to center text, will they always break a line at the same place etc.
Sorry this is a waffle, but there are so many factors that could make the text overflow and I don't understand them all in enough depth.
Basically what you need is to be able to scale the text div to force it to fit - for that you would need a bit of JS I think (?or is there an equivalent of contain for divs?)
ORIGINAL STUFF:
I am seeing text stay within the green box on a mobile device (IOS Safari) so I imagine the problem you are having is with another mobile device/browser such as Android.
If this is case the area to look at is the use of the CSS property
text-size-adjust: 90%
There are a couple of things to note here:
According to MDN
This is an experimental technology. Check ... carefully before using in production.
This property is intended to be used in the case where a website has not been designed with smaller devices/viewports in mind.
According to MDN, while Chrome on Android implements text-size-adjust fully, Firefox on Android and Safari on IOS do not support the percentage version.
I may be missing something but the question explicitly states that 'the webpage will scale everything in proportion'. Apart from possible inbuilt browser margin and padding on the div, everything is expressed as vw or % so I cannot see anything else that would have an adverse affect on the text positioning.
I also cannot see why this property is being used. It may or may not be causing the problem, but it certainly may affect how text is displayed on some browsers and it seems to be, at best, redundant for a site that is designed with proportionality in mind from the start.

Resize an image using calc() css

I'm trying to resize any image with existing height and width properties by a percentage (and keep proportions). I know that transform: scale(1.05) would take an image that's 100px by 100px and make it 105px by 105px, but it would still only occupy the original 100x100 space in page flow.
How would I do something like:
<img src="an.svg" width="100" height="100" alt="bigger please" class="resize" data-width="100" data-height="100"/>
img.resize {
height: auto;
width: calc(original width * 5%);
}
So that the browser renders an image that's 105px by 105px and that occupies the full 105x105?
I'm using simplified numbers for this question, but the images could have any value for either dimension.
Additionally, I can not use a wrapper or a background image, but I do have access to data-height and data-width attributes present on the images. Codepen is here: https://codepen.io/spicedham/pen/qMKLYq
Assuming you have a container available that the image is placed in, you can easily use calc to get the height and width for the image
check out this pen to see an example.
https://codepen.io/calebswank11/pen/gdKBRE
.container {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
}
img {
display: block;
width: calc(100% + 5%);
height: calc(100% + 5%);
left: -2.5%;
top:-2.5%;
position: relative;
}
I don't think you can use the width/height attribute of an image to define new width/height. You can probably consider inline styles and CSS variable like this:
img {
width:calc((var(--width) * 5/100 + var(--width))*1px);
height:auto;
}
<img src="https://picsum.photos/100/100?image=1069" height="100" >
<br>
<img src="https://picsum.photos/100/100?image=1069" height="100" style="--width:100">
If it's not totally necessary for the img tag to be utilized (and the image is always the same aspect ratio if it's dynamic) then you could use a div with a background image, and give it height: 0; and padding-bottom: 100% (or whatever percentage that would create the appropriate aspect ratio) and modify it that way with css transforms
After exhaustively trying every permutation I could think of, I do have a solution of sorts. It requires two things I was trying to avoid (a container & inline styles), but it works as part of a system. Some additional background: I work on a web app that lets users set a base font size (think 12, 14, 16, or 18pt) and then also handles zooming at on top of that with a range from a 10% to 300% for low vision users. We have some images (mostly math expressions) that are embedded within the surrounding page content as SVGs. At default print and zoom levels an SVG with the number '3' in it is the same size as plain text number 3 next to it. But things get mismatched as the other variables start to change. The technique described below, once in place, will let us have fine-grained control over how these images match up with surrounding text regardless of print size or zoom level.
Here's a link to solution in codepen https://codepen.io/spicedham/pen/pxzYYe and a variation using... variables https://codepen.io/spicedham/pen/MPgxxo.
Here's the CSS:
.container {
display: inline-flex;
vertical-align: middle;
border-left: solid .05em transparent;
border-right: solid .05em transparent;
}
.scaleMe {
transform: scale(1.1);
margin: .05em 0;
}
And here's the what the images and containers look like:
<span class="container" style="font-size: 300px;"><img class="scaleMe" src="svg.svg" width="300" height="100" alt="" style="font-size: 100px"/></span>
<span class="container" style="font-size: 100px"><img class="scaleMe" src="svg.svg" width="100" height="200" alt="" style="font-size: 200px"/></span>
The problem I ran into whether I used calc() or transform:scale() was that I could not get content to reflow around the resized image consistently - an image scaled up would overlap adjacent content. It was possible if all the images were the same size or they all had the same proportions, but that's not something I can count on in our system.
The other problem was that using percentages as units, while the logical choice, does not work as you'd expect.
So the solution was to create a stand-in relative unit of em. I took the width of the image (say 300px) and set it as the font size for the container. I then took the height of the image (say 100px) and set it as the font size of the image. This allows me to prop open the container to occupy the same space as the scaled image. Gets around the limitation of not being able to use percentages for border widths and accurately set the equivalent of a percentage for top and bottom margins on the image.

When I have a full width, fluid container my text in google chrome becomes distorted (too big), but none of the other browsers. Why?

.container-fluid{
background-color: $white;
padding: 0;
&.featured{
max-width: 1300px;
}
}
So, I set this to container fluid, and set max width on the main content (.featured), I have a top nav which remains full page width. If i zoom out a lot in chrome, the text becomes distorted. I can't see any font changes I'm making on media queries to cause this, and it's working fine in safari and firefox.
Any Ideas on how to resolve this or what I should dig more into?
chrome:
same zoom, but with firefox:
If I got your question right, you need to end to your featured definition:
.featured {
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
Make sure the featured element can scale horizontally, i.e. does not have max height.
If this was not the problem, please post a codepen/fiddle

Forcing aspect ratio with CSS doesn't work on Safari

The following code works well in Firefox and Chrome, but doesn't in Safari (tested on Mac and iPad): http://jsfiddle.net/eFd87/.
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2783/4106818782_cc6610db2c.jpg">
</div>
</div>
#wrapper {
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 33.33%; /* Set ratio here */
height: 0;
}
#content {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: green;
text-align: center;
}
#content img {
max-height: 100%;
}​
The goal is to have a wrapper div keep a fixed aspect ratio (in my web application it is a carousel), and the image inside it resize to fit in the div (and center).
On Safari the image doesn't display because of the height: 0 (which will give a height of 0 for the img). With height: 100% the image display but doesn't fit the div (it overflows).
Do you see any solution for this problem? I've been on this for hours...
If you are not worried about old browsers you could use the object-fit property
The CSS object-fit property is used to specify how an <img> or <video> should be resized to fit its container.
Or if you need to support old browsers there is a neat Netflix trick discussed here:
Responsive Images
As announced during WWDC20 at What's new for web developers, starting from Safari 13.1, WebKit now calculates the image aspect ratio from the width and height values of the image element. This means that the issue you have faced is fixed on the latest version of the browser.
On the next video you can see a test ran at my machine where Chrome and Safari behaves the same: https://recordit.co/GULXcMpfPW
See also:
WebKit changelog including the fix
WebKit changeset where the fix is implemented
Width 100% and Height auto worked for me on Safari. Initially, i was using 100% for both w and h which works fine on FF but failed on Safari.
.stretch {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
HTML:
<div>
<img src="images/someimg.jpg" class="stretch" alt="" />
</div>
And oh, I've used Bootstrap which adds this to all elements.
*, *:before, *:after {
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
}
This isn't exactly a great answer to your question but it's an answer nonetheless.
I very much doubt it is possible to do this using a CSS only approach because as far as I know (I'm happy to be corrected on this) there is no way to perform calculations based on the of another CSS property. So width: height * 1.3; for example isn't possible. You can't use % either because that's a percentage of the parent, not of its self.
The way you are currently looking at involving bottom padding won't work reliably either, it will work on your screen however if someone else screen has a different aspect ratio or they have lots of tool bars changing the aspect ratio of the browser window then the aspect ratio will be wrong. % is of the parent which unless you can guarantee the size of you cannot really use.
So far as I can tell your only option on this is JavaScript. The most obvious and my recommendation would be jQuery or some other framework to calculate and explicitly set height based on width. Don't forget to listen for browser window resizing though.

Problem with percentage based widths in Opera

I'm trying to make a fluid grid layout and I've run into a problem with inconsistent width rendering in Opera. In Opera the width of elements are consistently smaller than the other browsers. I'm trying the fluid 960 grid system but if it wont be consistent then I may change to fixed sizes.
Does anyone know how I can get Opera to render the width the same as the other browsers?
Here is the CSS and HTML I'm using for this demo
.show_grid {
background: url(../img/grid.gif) no-repeat center top;
}
html, body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.container {
width: 92%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
max-width: 936px;
padding-top: 15%;
}
.box {
width: 15.633%;
background: #006;
color: #999;
margin: 5% .55%
}
<div class="container show_grid">
<div class="box">2 column - browser name</div>
</div>
Opera rounds percent widths but it doesn't round percentage values for paddings and margins.
So, the easy way is to set the width: 15%, and add padding-right:.633%. But doing so, only the block would be bigger visually.
If you want to have it's width fair so all childs would have the same width, you'll need to add another wrapper and add the appropriate negative margin to it. It is calculated by this formula: 100/width*padding, in your case: 100/15*0.633. It would compensate the padding and everything would be cool.
Here is a fiddle with all the variants: http://jsfiddle.net/kizu/8q23d/
— fixed width in pixels, block with width:15.633%, first visual fix and the proper fix at the end.
Dealing with different box models could be very tricky and time consuming.
I definitely suggest you to avoid dirty CSS hacks that will not validate your css files.
You could try to drop the use of percentage values and go for an "elastic" layout.
In this case you specify the min-width and max-width for your block elements.
An article about elastic layout is here and something more here
In alternative you could detect the browser via javascript or via library and use conditional CSS files.
This is my favorite approach when dealing with IE.
conditional css is a library that will help you with that, but there are many more options in the web.
Good luck

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