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Consider the following rudimentary html code block:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>iPad test</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<style>
body
{
margin:0;
}
#content
{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 980px;
border:1px solid #c4c4c4;
background-color:#f5f5f5;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
A small amount of content
</div>
</body>
</html>
When viewed on an iPad, the main content area of 980px will not be auto zoomed to fit the iPad screen. However, if you replace A small amount of content with a large amount of content, ie... enough to cause vertical scrolling, the page is auto zoomed on the iPad.
Does anyone know why this is? I have been searching high and low and can't seem to find a way to force the auto zooming to occur when there is minimal content on the page.
Changing the viewport content to width=980 fixes the issue of course, however I am creating a responsive website, therefore the viewport needs to be device-width.
I am using a media query to alter the CSS for the content area on smart phones (to 100% width), and I was hoping to use the standard desktop version of the website for iPads.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Note: I am testing on an iPad with retina display, I'm not sure what happens on older models.
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After a break from this, I came back with a different angle - if setting the viewport width to a specific value fixes my issue for the iPad, why not do just that.
So the solution for me was to default the viewport width to device-width to handle smart phone devices, then detect for iPads and adjust the viewport width:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<script type="text/javascript">
if(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)) {
viewport = document.querySelector("meta[name=viewport]");
viewport.setAttribute('content', 'width=980');
}
</script>
Thanks for your suggestions insertusernamehere
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Try this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
The whole content will fit afterwards.
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