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Konstantin Milyutin
Konstantin Milyutin

Reputation: 12366

Understanding viewport

I'm trying to understand the viewport concept. I use the following test HTML:

<html>
<head>
<meta  name="viewport" content="width=1500, initial-scale=1">
<title>Test page to understand view port</title>
</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>

Since I set viewport width to be 1500, I tell the browser that the page was designed for 1500px wide screen. So I expect my Chrome to scale the page to my HTC One's small screen and I expected font to be quite small. But that's what I get:

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Could someone explain me this result?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 260

Answers (1)

jskidd3
jskidd3

Reputation: 4783

The reason why it's appearing like that is because you're telling the viewport to render the content as if the screen's width is 1500 pixels wide. Clearly this device doesn't have a width of 1500 so the content appears very large.

This is a really good page that will summarise everything to do with the viewport: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag

Try setting the width like this: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">.

Upvotes: 1

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