OT: html coding question

Nathan England nathan at nmecs.com
Thu Nov 20 10:29:28 MST 2014


There are many frameworks which do what you want, namely bootstrap or 
Foundation. I think ultimately what you want is css @media queries. Do 
some digging on that and search for detecting media type or screen size 
and displaying a specific css for that device.


On 2014-11-20 10:14, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Is there a way to set up an html page so that it will be displayed at 
> one
> size on a mobile device, but then make all of the multiple small images
> that make up the html page scaled down to a different (much smaller) 
> size
> on a desktop computer?
> 
> The problem is that I am creating a series of html pages beginning with
> the link below as a model for an android app so that when this page is
> viewed on an android smart phone, it fills the screen perfectly.
> 
> However, when I view this same html page on my desktop computer, the
> image is way too large and I have to use CTRL- seven times to get the
> image scaled down to the size that I want it to appear on the desktop.
> 
> - - http://www.av7.org/av7app - - (do CTRL- 7 times to scale it down)
> 
> How can I make this html page with all of its small image components
> scale down automatically to the size I want it to be when the same page
> is viewed on a desktop computer?
> 
> 
> 
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