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Alon
Alon

Reputation: 7758

How to write different HTML for different screen sizes

I understood how I change CSS via media queries (such as media="screen and (max-width:640px)")

but let's say I want to write (just for example)

<div>
[if screen resolution is lower then 960 px]
    <div>
    some new text only for lower resolution
    </div>
[end of condition]
</div>

What is the condition I need to write to get it right?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 40956

Answers (7)

IPSDSILVA
IPSDSILVA

Reputation: 1829

I am actually going through the same situation and found that if you want to do this you could really add all the text in the HTML page, and then hide it on screen widths that you don't want it to show. For example:


    <div>
    [text that will be shown for screens less or equal to 960px in width]
        <div class="smallScreen">
        some new text only for lower resolution
        </div>
    [end of condition for small screens]

    [text that will be shown for other screens that are greater in width]
        <div class="largeScreen">
        some new text only for higher resolution
        </div>
    </div>

And then you could add CSS:

    /* On smaller resolutions, hide the text for Large screens */
    @media only screen and (max-width: 960px) {
        .largeScreen {display: none;}
   }

   /* On larger resolutions, hide the text for Small screens */
    @media only screen and (min-width: 960px) {
        .smallScreen {display: none;}
   }

I hope this works out fine :)

Upvotes: 6

Magige Daniel
Magige Daniel

Reputation: 1122

Answere was helpful from:

if screen resolution is less than x append css

You can do this entirely with CSS 3 using the @media command.

**@media (max-width:960px) { css... } //nothing with screen size bigger than 960px

@media (min-width:960px) { css... } //nothing with screen size smaller than 960px**

Jason Whitted makes a good point, this is CSS 3 only, so it won't work with older browsers (it should work with all modern browsers though). You can as well do screen or device edit

@media screen { .nomobile { display: block; } } //desktops/laptops

@media handheld { .nomobile { display: none; } } //mobile devices Or you could assume mobile devices will have a smaller width, and go on that.

Upvotes: 1

Sumit Munot
Sumit Munot

Reputation: 3868

You can add jQuery function to change style dynamically as per scree resolution. 

if(screen.width==1600)
       { 
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').removeAttr("margin-left", "-0.9");
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').attr('style', 'margin-left: -0.7%');
       }
        else if(screen.width==1280)
       { 
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').removeAttr("margin-left", "-0.9");
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').attr('style', 'margin-left: -0.9%');
       }    
       else if(screen.width==1024)
       { 
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').removeAttr("margin-left","-0.9");
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').attr('style', 'margin-left: -1.1%');
       }
        else if(screen.width==800)
        { 
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').removeAttr("margin-left","-0.9");
        jQuery('#hb-gotop').attr('style', 'margin-left: -1.3%');
       }

Upvotes: 1

Stephane Gosselin
Stephane Gosselin

Reputation: 9148

I could be wrong, but I think css selection by resolution would need a little help from javascript.

Here is a quick example of what that js could look like, embedded in jquery:

$(document).ready(function() {

  if ((screen.width>=1024) && (screen.height>=768)) {
   alert('Screen size: 1024x768 or larger');  
   $("link[rel=stylesheet]:not(:first)").attr({href : "detect1024.css"});
 }
  else  {
    alert('Screen size: less than 1024x768, 800x600 maybe?');
    $("link[rel=stylesheet]:not(:first)").attr({href : "detect800.css"});
  }
});

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 1

LostMohican
LostMohican

Reputation: 3144

you can check it via using javascript screen object : 

screen.width

or you can do this with css 

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (min-device-width: 800px)" href="800.css" />

http://css-tricks.com/6206-resolution-specific-stylesheets/ http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/newtech3.shtml

Upvotes: 6

Till Helge
Till Helge

Reputation: 9311

You need to assign an id (or a class or any other way of finding your element from CSS) to the <div> and then you can set a media query definition like this:

<div id="mydiv">...</div>
<style type="text/css">
@media screen and (min-width: 961px) {
   div#mydiv { display: none }
}
</style>

Or for better readability: Make it hidden on default and visible if max-width: 960px.

Upvotes: 4

Jan Dragsbaek
Jan Dragsbaek

Reputation: 8101

As far as i have experienced, you cannot do media queries inside HTML pages. You need to do it from within your CSS.

But if you want to show some special text only when it is below a certain resolution, why not only make it visible when the resolution is lower than 960px?

Creating responsive designs is very different from a regular design, because you have to think a lot more (which is haaard)

Upvotes: 9

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