We want to put the final touches on our profile page now. If you haven't already, let's copy our previous profile into this challenge's folder and add a CSS file to it:
cp -r ../03-Finishing-profile-design/profile .
Your profile is complete, but what happens if you re-size your browser window and make it smaller? Your page is not yet responsive 😱.
If you want a responsive design, you can add media queries in your CSS. To use media queries, you must have this line in the <head>
of your html 👇
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
This allows your page to detect the width of the device you are using.
Media queries work a bit like an if
statement in ruby. Basically you can define CSS rules that will only apply if the window is smaller than a given width. For instance, if you want a responsive container, you can build it like this:
@media (max-width: 960px) {
/* For a screen < 960px, this CSS will be read */
.container {
width: 700px;
}
}
@media (max-width: 720px) {
/* For a screen < 720px, this CSS will be read */
.container {
width: 500px;
}
}
@media (max-width: 540px) {
/* For a screen < 540px, this CSS will be read */
.container {
width: 300px;
}
}
Try to resize your window to understand how media queries work.
As with if
statements in ruby, order matters! If several conditions are true
, the last CSS rule will be applied.