scale fit mobile web content using viewport meta tag

android iphone ios mobile viewport

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Solution 1

In the head add this

//Include jQuery
<meta id="Viewport" name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {
  var ww = ( $(window).width() < window.screen.width ) ? $(window).width() : window.screen.width; //get proper width
  var mw = 480; // min width of site
  var ratio =  ww / mw; //calculate ratio
  if( ww < mw){ //smaller than minimum size
   $('#Viewport').attr('content', 'initial-scale=' + ratio + ', maximum-scale=' + ratio + ', minimum-scale=' + ratio + ', user-scalable=yes, width=' + ww);
  }else{ //regular size
   $('#Viewport').attr('content', 'initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes, width=' + ww);
  }
}
});
</script>

Solution 2

I think this should help you.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">

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/

Solution 3

ok, here is my final solution with 100% native javascript:

<meta id="viewport" name="viewport">

<script type="text/javascript">
//mobile viewport hack
(function(){

  function apply_viewport(){
    if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry/i.test(navigator.userAgent)   ) {

      var ww = window.screen.width;
      var mw = 800; // min width of site
      var ratio =  ww / mw; //calculate ratio
      var viewport_meta_tag = document.getElementById('viewport');
      if( ww < mw){ //smaller than minimum size
        viewport_meta_tag.setAttribute('content', 'initial-scale=' + ratio + ', maximum-scale=' + ratio + ', minimum-scale=' + ratio + ', user-scalable=no, width=' + mw);
      }
      else { //regular size
        viewport_meta_tag.setAttribute('content', 'initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes, width=' + ww);
      }
    }
  }

  //ok, i need to update viewport scale if screen dimentions changed
  window.addEventListener('resize', function(){
    apply_viewport();
  });

  apply_viewport();

}());
</script>

Solution 4

For Android there is the addition of target-density tag.

target-densitydpi=device-dpi

So, the code would look like

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, target-densitydpi=device-dpi, initial-scale=0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=yes" />

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.

Solution 5

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.

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Updated on August 08, 2022

Comments

rynop almost 2 years
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?