Why do containers on some websites get too small when emulating small screens in dev tools?
On www.gov.uk to take 1 example, the containers which normally span the whole width of the screen end up getting too small at low screen widths. Interestingly they behave differently in Chromium and Firefox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpRij-sf8ZM
Any ideas as to what causes this? I've noticed it on my own sites as well and have failed to troubleshoot it so far.
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I generally see this behavior when the contents are too big for the container at the width you've shrunk it to. I think the cause is something like the container is some percent of the screen size, but the contents are fixed at a larger size, so the only option to view everything is to zoom out (Chromium behavior) or scroll (Firefox behavior). I'm not sure how an actual device with a screen that narrow would handle the situation, but if you expect anyone to be using a screen that small you should probably include styling to make the fonts actually fit the screen. That would probably be some css added that reduces all the larger font sizes up to whatever media breakpoint makes sense.
In this case, the text in larger fonts like the headers can't get any narrower. In the title there's a non-breaking space character between the last two words which explains why the last word doesn't wrap.
to7m [OP] 1 points · Aug 2024
Looks like you're right! It seems to silently zoom out to a maximum of 25% in some cases. Maybe there's a variable in the source code of the browsers that could be set to 100% to disable this.
Chance-Cobbler216 0 points · Dec 2024
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