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Is there a way to set the general responsive meta viewport () only for phones? We have a website that without that meta tag, zoomed out, looks fine on 7" and larger tablets, portrait and landscape, but it was just a bit too inconvenient on smaller devices.
So to get it working how we wanted on phones, I had to use the <meta name="viewport"> tag, which then forced some media queries to fix things on the larger devices.
Is there a way to set that meta tag on phones, and just device default zoomed out view on larger devices?
Thanks! Rich
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Do you mean this <meta name="viewport">?
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" />
If so, try the following script added in the <head> (taken and adapted from here):
if(navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/webOS/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/BlackBerry/i)
|| navigator.userAgent.match(/Windows Phone/i)) {
document.write('<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" />');
}
This will detect if the user-agent indicates that the browser is mobile, and will write that meta viewport as required.
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Actually, this might be a better solution: Add a script after meta viewport tag that will change the value if the screen is bigger than specified.
<meta id="testViewport" name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<script>
if (screen.width > 590) {
var mvp = document.getElementById('testViewport');
mvp.setAttribute('content','width=980');
}
</script>
There can be variations of this script. For example you could set the actual screen width as viewport, instead of a fixed value.
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