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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Write CSS Media Queries

Posted by Anthony Matar
Anthony Matar
1,177 Points

Media query trouble

No matter what I do I am not able to make my media queries work when I adjust my browser screen size. I believe that I am following instructions verbatim and I was able to pass the challenge tasks. Is it possible my browser is to blame? Thanks!

2 Answers

Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points
Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points

Could you post your code?

I bet the problem is because you are forgetting to add

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

to the head of your html file.

This meta tag allows for media queries to scale based on screen size.

Anthony Matar
Anthony Matar
1,177 Points
Anthony Matar
Anthony Matar
1,177 Points

I've actually since figured it out. There seemed to be some lag between when I was saving and refreshing because it's all kosher now. I've got to be more patient! Thanks, Hayden.