How to target Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 with media queries?

Question

I have two devices that I'm testing site design with. Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Nexus 7 tablet. I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to target these individual devices with media queries. I'm not sure about what values to use for max-width or to use max-device-width. Also I can't figure out what order to put the media queries in...

According to: http://responsejs.com/labs/dimensions/

• Galaxy Nexus Portrait: document.documentElement.clientWidth = 360
• Galaxy Nexus Landscape: document.documentElement.clientWidth = 598
• Nexus 7 Portrait: document.documentElement.clientWidth = 603
• Nexus 7 Landscape: document.documentElement.clientWidth = 966

I need to target the following:

• Galaxy Nexus Portrait and Tablet
• Galaxy Nexus Portrait
• Galaxy Nexus Tablet
• Nexus 7 Portrait and Tablet
• Nexus 7 Portrait
• Nexus 7 Tablet

I tried the following for testing but didn't have good results... Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I was kinda just playing around with the numbers trying to figure out what worked and what didn't...

/* Galaxy Nexus (portrait and landscape) ----------- */
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 360px) and (max-device-width : 598px) {
    ul.top-menu { background: red; }
}

/* Galaxy Nexus (landscape) ----------- */
@media only screen and (min-width : 361px) and (orientation: landscape){
    ul.top-menu { background: blue; }
}

/* Galaxy Nexus (portrait) ----------- */
@media only screen and (max-width : 360px) and (orientation: portrait) {
    ul.top-menu { background: purple; }
}

/* Nexus 7 (portrait and landscape) ----------- */
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 603px) and (max-device-width : 966px) {
    ul.top-menu { background: yellow; }
}

/* Nexus 7 (landscape) ----------- */
@media only screen and (min-width : 604px) and (orientation: landscape) {
    ul.top-menu { background: green; }
}

/* Nexus 7 (portrait) ----------- */
@media only screen and (max-width : 603px) and (orientation: portrait) {
    ul.top-menu { background: orange; }
}

And FYI I know that you aren't really supposed to be so specific, targeting individual devices when doing Responsive Design, but I'm doing this mostly for as a test and need to do it in this case. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have a Nexus 7 and I have try your sricpt. The problem is that every browser have a different viewport. So it's complex to have a correct result.

@media only screen and (device-width : 800px) and (orientation: portrait) {
    #device:after {
        content: "Nexus 7 - portrait - firefox";
    }
}
@media only screen and (width : 603px) and (orientation: portrait) {
    #device:after {
        content: "Nexus 7 - portrait - chrome";
    }
}
@media only screen and (device-width : 1280px) and (orientation: landscape) {
    #device:after {
        content: "Nexus 7 - landscape - firefox";
    }
}
@media only screen and (width : 966px) and (orientation: landscape) {
    #device:after {
        content: "Nexus 7 - landscape - chrome";
    }
}

I don't have time to make Opera.

You can view the result here with your Nexus 7

Answer 2

To specifically target you can use:

@media only screen and (min-width : 600px) and (max-width : 603px) and (orientation: portrait) {
//Your CSS Here
}

This will get the nexus 7 and if you have iPhone targetting media queries they will remain in tact.

Answer 3

Nexus 7 (v1) 2012

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.3; Nexus 7 Build/KTU84L) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.93 Safari/537.36

@media screen
resolution: 192dpi/2dppx
color: 8
-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2

orientation: portrait
  width: 600px/37.5em/158mm
  height: 791px/49.4375em/209mm
  device-width: 600px/37.5em/158mm
  device-height: 960px/60em/254mm
  aspect-ratio: 600/791
  device-aspect-ratio: 5/8 or 758/1000
orientation:landscape
  width: 960px/60em/254mm
  height:431px/26.9375em/114mm
  device-width:960px/60em/254mm
  device-height:600px/37.5em/158mm
  aspect-ratio:960/431
  device-aspect-ratio:8/5 or 2227/1000

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Nexus 7 (v2) 2013

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; Nexus 7 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.93 Sfari/537.36

@media screen
resolution: 127dpi/1dppx
color: 8
-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 1.3312500715255737 or 1.3

orientation: portrait
  width: 601px/37.5625em/159mm
  height: 881px/55.0625em/207mm
  device-width: 601px/37.5625em/159mm
  device-height: 962px/60.125em/254mm
  aspect-ratio: 601/881
  device-aspect-ratio: 601/962
orientation: landscape
  width: 962px/60.125em/254mm
  height: 529px/33.0625em/114mm
  device-width: 962px/60.125em/254mm
  device-height: 601px/37.5625em/159mm
  aspect-ratio: 962/529
  device-aspect-ratio: 962/601 or 2221/1000