Layout Compatible for iPad

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rbush

Hi there,

I feel like this should be really simple for me to figure out, though I am not able to get this to work and I cannot find an answer anywhere online.

I am creating an HTML page with 7 boxes 175px X 175px (Each one to be like a button later on). What I want is for the layout to change according to the orientation of the iPad screen.

EX: Horizontally, the boxes would fit into about 2 rows...vertically the boxes would be in 3 or 4 rows.

When I rotate the screen now, the boxes just get smaller...they don't rearrange. Can anyone help please?

Here is my CSS and HTML:

<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
    position:relative;
    width:100%;
    height:900px;
    background-color:#ffffff;
	min-width: 395px;
	max-width: 780px;
	min-height: 395px;
	max-height: 780px;
}
.row {
    width:60%;
    height:auto;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 10px; 
}
.box {
    width: 175px;
    height: 175px;
    background-color: #999;
	border-radius:25px;
    margin: 10px;
    float:left;
}
.boxTitle{
	font-size: medium;
	color: #FFF;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-align: center;
	padding-top: 5px;
	height: 50px;
}
.box form .goButton {
	background: url(goButton.png) no-repeat;
	width: 97px;
	height: 40px;
	font-size: 0px;
	border: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 110px;
}
</style>

<div id="wrapper">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">Township Board Information</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">MyYTown Ticket Management</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">Computer Support Tools</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">Remote Applications</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">BSA Online Lookups</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">Employee Portals</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
        <div class="box"><p class="boxTitle">App Tools</p><form>
        <input name="go" type="button" value="Go" class="goButton"/>
        </form></div>
    </div>
</div>

Sup3rkirby

Have you tried adding the 'viewport' <meta> tag?

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

As a side note, because you are applying some max-width values to #wrapper, and a 60% width to the row class, it seems that natively these boxes are limited to 2 columns (regardless of how much additional width may be avaible). I'm not really sure either of those properties are necessary.

rbush

Found a solution

I used the following in the css file:
@media all and (orientation: portrait){...}
@media all and (orientation: landscape){...}

I still need to do some touch ups, but I got the main problem solved.