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Pztar
Pztar

Reputation: 4749

How do I stop a CSS layout from distorting when zooming in/out?

I've set up a very basic site with a #container div that includes the #navbar and #content. However, when I zoom in or out, the #navbar distorts, if I zoom in the links get pushed down below each other instead of being inline. If I zoom out, too much padding is added between the links. How can I stop this?

HTML: 

<div id="navbar">
<ul>
    <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="top.html">Top</a></li>
    <li><strong><a href="free.html">FREE</a></strong></li>
    <li><a href="photo.html">Photo</a></li>
    <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="content">

<p>Some sample text.<p>

</div>


</div>

CSS:

#container {

    position: static;
    background-color: #00bbee;
    margin-left: 20%;
    margin-right: 20%;
    margin-top: 7%;
    margin-bottom: 15%;
    border: 2px solid red;
    
    
}

#navbar  ul{

    list-style: none;
    
    

}

#navbar  li{

    display: inline;
    
}

#navbar li a{
    
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #11ff11;
    margin: 3%;
    border: 1px dotted orange;
    padding-left: 4px;

}

#navbar li a:hover {

    background-color: white;
    color: green;

}

#navbar {

    background-color: #eeeeee;
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    border: 1px solid yellow;
    
}

How can I stop it from distorting?

Also, I'm still pretty new to CSS, I was taught to use % instead of px. Is that right? Also anything else you've got to point out, please let me know.

Upvotes: 22

Views: 174090

Answers (9)

Pztar
Pztar

Reputation: 4749

As this question still gets constant views, I'll post the solution I use currently.

CSS Media Queries:

@media screen and (max-width: 320px) { 

/*Write your css here*/

}

@media screen and (max-width: 800px) { 

}

Check out: CSS-Tricks + device sizes and Media Queries

Upvotes: 7

jimmybisenius
jimmybisenius

Reputation: 1

You're going to want to use a css media query to set break points for different styles in your css. Which if used correctly will fix any distortion issues.

Upvotes: 0

Gordon Mcleod
Gordon Mcleod

Reputation: 3

Here you go, this is a lot like the above suggestions but its got a fixed width content area, if you were looking for full width I'm sorry (;_;)

<style>
body {
    margin:0px;
}
#container {
    width:990px;
    background-color: #00bbee;
    margin:0 auto;
    border: 2px solid red;
}
#navbar ul {
    list-style: none;
}
#navbar li {
    display: inline;
}
#navbar li a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #11ff11;
    margin: 3%;
    border: 1px dotted orange;
    padding-left: 4px;
}
#navbar li a:hover {
    background-color: white;
    color: green;
}
#navbar {
    background-color: #eeeeee;
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    border: 1px solid yellow;
}
</style>

<div id="container">
  <div id="navbar">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="top.html">Top</a></li>
      <li><strong><a href="free.html">FREE</a></strong></li>
      <li><a href="photo.html">Photo</a></li>
      <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="content">
    <p>Some sample text.
    <p> 
  </div>
</div>

Upvotes: 0

RedDevils
RedDevils

Reputation: 1

It is mainly because u have set your width or margin properties in percentage. If you do so make sure u provide maximum width to such element

Upvotes: 0

Dominik Schmidt
Dominik Schmidt

Reputation: 557

I would just set absolute heights and widths to all elements/divs on the page.

id {height: 250px; width: 500px}

Or you could also use min/max-width/hight to adjust the page layout on different screen sizes or when resizing the browser window.

Upvotes: 0

Diodeus - James MacFarlane
Diodeus - James MacFarlane

Reputation: 114347

Different browsers user different techniques for zoom. All of them have faults. Using percentages will introduce rounding errors. There are no easy answers.

See: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/the-two-types-of-browser-zoom.html

Upvotes: 1

helper
helper

Reputation: 11

To fix the problem with zooming in, try adding the min-width attribute to your outer countainer (#container or #navbar?). Setting min-width prevents the webpage from trying to shrink down beyond the specified width (i.e. 300px). If you zoom in too far, instead of the elements inside the <div> jumping down onto the next line, your navbar will stop shrinking and a scrollbar will appear at the bottom of the page.

Example (in your stylesheet):

#navbar {min-width:300px;}

Another good way of achieving this is to apply the min-width attribute to the page body.

Example (in your stylesheet):

body {min-width:300px;}

Finally, if you want to make your navbar span the full width of the page, use {clear:both;} in the stylesheet.

Upvotes: 1

London804
London804

Reputation: 1116

I had a similar problem that I fixed by adding an extra div around my navigation menu. I then added the following 

#menu-container {
    position: absolute;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;

}

This prevented it from wrapping. Hope it works.

Upvotes: 4

Lobabob
Lobabob

Reputation: 142

Hmm....have you tried adding in min-width/min-height properties yet? You could just include those properties on your #container div. That might just do the trick.

Upvotes: 0

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