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EDIT: This was a total rookie error on my part. I was editing a different fileset to the one I was testing. Sincere apologies to all who answered to help me out. I've upvoted all answers as I at least learned a little more on media queries from you all, but none provided the answer. Advice pls on what now to do with this ticket?
This is a busy topic on the site, but I haven't seen the solution for this problem.
The viewport tag is present. I'm using:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
When I resize the browser window in Chrome, it works fine, and I can see it snapping to new breakpoints as they are reached, however iPhone Safari displays the top left of the site only, with no sign of picking up any queries.
The CSS Media query I'm using for iPhone portrait is:
@media (max-width: 321px) { }
I'm using Bootstrap and LESS, so my media queries are at the end of the styles.
Sorry I'm not in a position to share code on this. It's an odd one — I'm hoping someone can see if there's something I may be missing.
EDIT
Here's a very basic example which is working on my iPhone. I can rotate from portrait to landscape and the bg color will change - so there's nothing wrong with the media query I'm using:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background: blue;
}
@media (max-width: 321px)
{
body
{
background: red;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Here is my content...
</body>
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Edit
What solved this for me is a double ("or"-operated) media query, for either max-device-width or max-width. It's like David Rönnqvist's first suggestion, but it was only putting max-width, max-device-width BOTH in the media query that worked for me.
@media screen and (max-device-width:640px), screen and (max-width:640px) {
/* styles here */
}
BBTony, I hope this works for you.
I'm keeping the below because it is a fuller description of the problem than i've found anywhere else. I disliked my first solution (below the line) so much that I re-researched for the thousandth time - thanks to this post which gave me the above solution without the ridiculous !importants.
Edit: this also worked, but it's extremely inelegant: Putting "!important" on every line of the media query conditional CSS.
I was reluctant to propose that as an answer, but after going bonkers researching this for 3 days, it was the first thing that worked for me.
Full description of the problem: I had similar symptoms as BBTony. I had the viewport tag (and I had it above the stylesheets as recommended).
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
My media query, intended to catch any smallish device, was being ignored by an iPhone 3gs running iOS 5.1, but the same media query was being properly picked up by an iPhone 4s running iOS 6.
@media only screen and (max-device-width:640px) {
/* many styles here */
}
Very oddly, while most declarations within the media query were being ignored by the older iPhone, some of them were being respected. The newer iPhone 4s however respected all the CSS within the media query, as expected. On Safari desktop, the media queries all worked perfectly, snapping at both the breakpoints (there are 2).
I linted my CSS through several different linters, after reading here that CSS errors can cause mobile browsers to ignore media queries. After making certain that my CSS was compliant, and just for the hell of it, I put !important declarations after each and every line of CSS within the media query - like 80-100 !importants.
Presto.
I can't tell you how mad it made me that this even worked, and I'm curious why the old iphone would only respect the conditional with !important in this case.
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