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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Adjusting the Layout with Media Queries

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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,122 Points

meta tag viewport

what does this tag do I cant get the clear answer. Can anyone help me?

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furkan
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Before the invention of tablets and different sized digital devices, webpages were generally static (fixed in size).

However, with an explosion in the variety of devices with a range of different sizes, developers had to rethink a strategy to cope with the demands of displaying the webpages online to all the users, from small sized screen devices to large.

The viewport is one of the elements use on the HTML document placed in the head, which provieds responsiveness to the website being viewed, by allowing the device that is viewing the webpage to scale to view at 100%, so fitting the contents of the page onto the screen. That is why we include initial-scale = 1.0, like this:

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

Here are some links with additional help about the meta tag:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_viewport.asp

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag