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Suraj Vishwakarma
Suraj Vishwakarma

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CSS Tips To Start Thinking Responsive Website

Introduction

Today, there are a lot of devices from where a user can access the web page. As the device changes their screen sizes, resolution and all. So it becomes necessary to optimize your website to look great on all device screen. Responsiveness of your website is very very important today. So I am going to list some tips to starting thing responsive for your website.

1. Ditch "Pixel" as a unit

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You might be using pixel for height/width for your contents, images, etc. But Pixels remain the same with change in screen size and it makes the website look out of shape and give a bad impression. Instead of using pixel, use the percentage as a unit for adjusting height/width. As it adjusts itself according to screen size.

2. Use of "em" and "rem"

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em and rem are two units which are dependent on other element's unit and it comes under the relative unit. em and rem will greatly help in adjusting font-size and padding according to the size of the screen. You can simply change one font-size and it will affect the whole document as em and rem are relative. Changing font-size and padding is quite helpful to adapt to different screen sizes. I personally use em for padding and rem for font-size. You can read more about em and rem on REM vs EM – The Great Debate.

3. Media Query

Media query can give more dynamic to your CSS style. By using media query you can change the CSS style of any element according to any given condition.

header{
    text-algin : left;
}

@media (max-width : 675px){
    header{
        text-align : center;    
    }
}
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In the above example, if the width of the page is 675px or lower then the text will align in the center or else it will align in left. Media query is one of the features you are going to love while making a responsive website.

4. Mobile First

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I had written the blog on this topic but for some reason, I have to delete that post. But I want to add this point from my original post. This point was recommended by Seye Olajuyin. When you write CSS starts with writing for small size screen i.e. Mobile devices. This helps you to write less code. As you end up modifying less to your code.

If hope whenever you next time design a website, think responsiveness of your website. You can give your opinion or idea in the comment box. Thank you for reading the blog.

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btlm

Hello, thanks for your post.
I bet almost every frontend/web developer knows well what RWD is but surprisingly not all of them exactly know how to implement it. Especially mobile first rule/advice which personally I find quite principal nowadays.

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Yes, a responsive approach towards website should be considered.

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mahfuz Hasan

good one

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Happy to help you.

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ZDev1Official

This is cool

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Halimah

Thanks for these 👍

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Thank you ❤️