I'm trying to figure out how to leverage the mobile viewport meta tag to automatically zoom the contents of a HTML page to fit into a web view.
Constraints:
- The HTML may or may not have fixed size elements (ex img has a fixed width of 640). In other words I don't want to force the content to be fluid and use %'s.
- I do not know the size of the webview, I just know its aspect ratio
For example, if I have a single image (640x100px) I want the image to zoom out if the webview is 300x250 (scale down to fit). On the other hand, if the webview is 1280x200 I want the image to zoom in and fill the webview (scale up to fit).
After reading the android docs and the iOS docs on viewports, it seems simple: since I know the width of my content (640) I just set the viewport width to 640 and let the webview decide if it needs to scale the content up or down to fit the webview.
If I put the following into my android/iPhone browser OR a 320x50 webview, the image does not zoom out to fit the width. I can scroll the image to the right and left..
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Test Viewport</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640" />
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
vertical-align: top;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,a,abbr,acronym,address,cite,code,del,dfn,em,img,q,s,samp,small,strike,strong,sub,sup,tt,var,dd,dl,dt,li,ol,ul,fieldset,form,label,legend,button,table,caption,tbody,tfoot,thead,tr,th,td
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 100%;
line-height: 1;
font-family: inherit;
vertical-align: top;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src="http://www.dmacktyres.com/img/head_car_tyres.jpg">
</body>
</html>
What am I doing wrong here? Does the viewport meta tag only zoom into content that is < the webview area?
I had same problem as yours, but my concern was list view. When i try to scroll list view fixed header also scroll little bit. Problem was list view height smaller than viewport (browser) height. You just need to reduce your viewport height lower than content tag (list view within content tag) height. Here is my meta tag;
Hope this will help.Thnks.
In the head add this
Adding
style="width:100%;max-width:640px"
to the image tag will scale it up to the viewport width, i.e. for larger windows it will look fixed width.For Android there is the addition of target-density tag.
So, the code would look like
Please note, that I believe this addition is only for Android (but since you have answers, I felt this was a good extra) but this should work for most mobile devices.
I think this should help you.
Tell me if it works.
P/s: here is some media query for standard devices. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/media-queries-for-standard-devices/
ok, here is my final solution with 100% native javascript: