In the past, web design was either built for desktop, laptop or phone screen displays. There was no easy way for websites to render screen-specific design instruction. However, in June 2012 media queries became a W3C standard after web browsers added support.
Each website would check for the device type and redirect to a mobile version such as “m.website.com”. Now, it’s easier than ever to write media queries in CSS to handle all different screens sizes. “CSS” — or Cascading Style Sheets are files that tell the web browser how to render a website. CSS media queries could be added at the end of the basic site style to give special directions for phones, tablets and small to large desktop/ laptop screens.
Mobile first is an important part of responsive design. It makes it easier to readjust the website components to fit larger screens than it is to shrink content to fit smaller screens.
Keep in mind the page constraint would be set using a “minimum width” media query. As long as the width of the page is set to 100% before the media query, the page should stretch the full device width until it hits 1200 - 1400 pixels.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Without the above line of code, a mobile responsive website may not render the proper font size on smaller displays.
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