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Sacha
Sacha

Reputation: 2834

CSS media query not working in IE 9

I have included some media queries in my design to change the width of some elements of the page based on the browser's width. The queries look like this:

@media screen and (min-width:1024px)
@media screen and (max-width:1024px)

Chrome, Safari and Firefox work great, only IE is a problem. I know that all versions prior to IE 9 don't support this feature, but they don't work in IE 9 at all. What might be the problem?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 16496

Answers (4)

Sameh
Sameh

Reputation: 1418

use the following conditions 

@media only screen (min-width: 1px) and (max-width:599px)

instead of 

@media only screen (max-width:599px)

and make sure min-width is 1px as IE9 doesn't pickup 0px

Upvotes: 0

Eugene Kardash
Eugene Kardash

Reputation: 360

Make sure you have right DOCTYPE declaration. It's strongly recommended that websites use the HTML5 document type in order to support the widest variety of established and emerging standards (in this case: CSS3), as well as the broadest range of web browsers: <!DOCTYPE html>

Upvotes: 2

Christopher Walker
Christopher Walker

Reputation: 1

Unfortunately min-width is simply not supported in any version of IE. So if you use this convention:

<!---  CSS Selector :: Desktop --->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/desktop.css" media="screen and (min-width:960px)" label="desktop">

<!---  CSS Selector :: Tablet PC --->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/tablet.css" media="screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width:959px)" label="tablet">

<!---  CSS Selector :: Phone --->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/phone.css" media="screen and (min-width:320px) and (max-width:499px)" label="phone">

It will ignore it all.

Reference.

Upvotes: -6

Antony Scott
Antony Scott

Reputation: 21998

Do you have compatibility mode turned on?

Upvotes: 13

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