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How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

Lesson 79 from: Build a Responsive Website Using HTML5 & CSS3

Daniel Walter Scott

How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

Lesson 79 from: Build a Responsive Website Using HTML5 & CSS3

Daniel Walter Scott

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Lesson Info

79. How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

How This Class is Structured

01:41
2

What to Download

02:57

Introduction to HTML & CSS

3

Creating Our First Webpage

05:55
4

What is HTML5 & CSS3

08:24
5

Head vs. Body vs. Html Tag

09:01
6

Title & Description

05:54
7

What Code Editor Should I Use

02:42
8

Using Diy Tags

06:26
9

What is a CSS Class

09:05
10

How to Create Nested Divs

05:03
11

Class Project

05:24
12

External CSS

09:07
13

Creating Our Index Style Pages

12:16

Project 1: Restaurant Website

14

Testing Your Website

08:47
15

Check Your Code For Errors

11:01
16

What are HTML5 Structure Tags

05:47
17

Add HTML5 structure elements

16:02
18

How to Set the Color of the Background

05:10
19

Adding Images to a Website

04:38
20

How to Center an Image

01:14
21

Change the Font Size & Color

14:11
22

Make a Clickable Link

08:45
23

Stretching Background Image

05:38
24

Making a Div Tag Transparent

02:36
25

Simple Website Text Navigation

06:43
26

CSS Compound Classes

07:02
27

Class Project 02

02:05
28

Class Project 02 - COMPLETE

04:48
29

Add an Email Button to a Website

03:49
30

Add Google Maps to Your Website

11:25
31

Making a Website Live

16:50
32

Uploading via SFTP

11:50
33

Setting Up Our New Project

03:46

Project 2: Bike Repair Website

34

CSS Reset

15:22
35

Min-height vs. Height

07:01
36

Div Tags Onto One Line

05:23
37

Getting div tags onto one line using Flexbox in HTML & CSS

05:23
38

Evenly Spaced Div Tags

04:42
39

Two Div Tags of Different Sizes

07:13
40

Vertically Center Content

07:20
41

Class Project 3

02:51
42

Class Project 3 - COMPLETE

05:39
43

Change Default Fonts

04:19
44

Installing Google Fonts

12:44
45

What are PX & EM & REM

14:56
46

Change Line Height

04:33
47

SVG vs. JPG vs. PNG

07:04
48

How to Create a SVG, JPG, or PNG

11:00
49

Block Images vs. Background Images

08:32
50

Finishing Up Our Cards

09:10
51

Icons via Font Awesome

16:31
52

Making a Div Container Clickable

09:55
53

Box-sizing & Border-box

06:19
54

How to Make A Colored Button

07:46
55

Why Can't I Add Margin or Paddding

11:08
56

Rounded Corners

04:17
57

Drop Shadows

06:24
58

Backup Your Website

05:00
59

Reusing a Button Class

03:10
60

Class Project 04

02:58
61

Class Project 04 -COMPLETE

05:45
62

Adding a Horizontal Rule

03:51
63

Make Divs Wrap Onto Separate Lines

12:14
64

Hover Color & Animating a Button

03:33
65

Pseudo Classes

09:31
66

Simple Dropdown Navigation

20:04
67

Adding Our Dropdown to the Website

14:50
68

Useful Shortcuts and Tips in VS Code

13:28
69

Large Background Image

09:24
70

How to Connect 2 Pages

10:42
71

Simple PHP Form Work

17:49
72

Placeholder Form Text

05:46
73

Multi Line Form Text Box

02:18
74

Form Check Marks

03:04
75

Form Radio Button

06:07
76

Form Drop Down Menu

05:48
77

How to Style Your Form

12:55

Project 3: Responsive Portfolio Website

78

What does responsive website design mean

04:17
79

How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

11:28
80

How to test your website on a tablet or mobile phone from Visual Studio Code

06:00
81

How to change the layout of a responsive website for mobile vs desktop

16:02
82

How to turn things on and off for mobile tablet & desktop responsive websites

06:03
83

What is pixel density responsive images pixel ratio dp px in webdesign

14:47
84

How to export responsive images for website from XD Photoshop Illustrator

05:11
85

How to add responsive images to website using 100% width in HTML & CSS

06:08
86

How to use srcset to change images in HTML for responsive website

10:15
87

How to add a css style to the first line of a p tag on a website (

11:18
88

How to make the header footer full width but the inside centered

05:36
89

Class Project 05 – Header design

03:12
90

Class Project 05 – Header design COMPLETE

06:25
91

How to use a span tag or span class in HTML to change text

10:32
92

How to pin the navigation to the top of a website fixed nav

03:17
93

How to make a simple responsive mobile menu using CSS only

08:21
94

What is Javascript vs Jquery in website web design

06:35
95

How to make a burger menu 3 line mobile navigation for a website

15:11
96

How to switch a menu nav from desktop to mobile phone

21:45

Project 4: Bootstrap Yogurt Website

97

Overview of what Bootstrap 4 is in website design

07:57
98

How to install Bootstrap 4 on a website using Visual Studio Code

06:27
99

Quick overview of how the Bootstrap Grid Layout works in VS Code

10:49
100

Quick overview of how Bootstrap Components works in VS Code

09:23
101

Quick overview of how Bootstrap CSS Styles works in VS Code

08:20
102

How to customize the default Bootstrap 4 css styles

13:51
103

How to use Bootstrap Layout Grid Experiment 1

10:20
104

How to make 100% header & uneven widths in Bootstrap 4

07:16
105

How to create uneven col widths in Bootstrap 4

07:27
106

How to add padding & margins using Bootstrap 4 in VS Code

12:03
107

How to change layout of Bootstrap depending on mobile or desktop

15:46
108

How to turn things on & off on your website using Bootstrap 4

05:30
109

Google Chrome Inspect

12:40
110

Add Shadows to Text & Boxes

07:06
111

Change the Default Buttons

06:16
112

Responsive Images in Bootstrap 4

09:34
113

How to Center Text & Div Tags

04:16
114

Customize the Bootstrap Navbar

07:29
115

Add Your Own Logo

03:58
116

Change the Default Nav Styles

12:12
117

Fix the Navigation to the Top

04:41
118

Col Images & Col Background

07:56
119

Bootstrap Border & Rounded Corners

04:20
120

Bootstrap 4 Carousels

05:13
121

Card Groups

03:29
122

Drop Shadows On Bootstrap Cards

02:25
123

Clickable Boxes in Bootstrap 4

04:02

Final Quiz

124

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

How to change a website layout size color when at different sizes using media queries

Alright. So let's get things set up first. We need to tidy up from our last project. Okay. We're no longer doing project to we're doing project three. So I'm going to go to file open. I'm going to make a folder on my desktop. Cool. Project three. Cool click open. Perfect. It's the way to get started. We're gonna create. I'm going to close down Welcome. I'm gonna close down the outline. I'm going to make two files file new. Let's save this one. You're getting used to this right? You're like, I know how to do this. Let's go to file save Let's create another one. Farm new. Save it. Let's call it style dot CSS connected to. So in here let's put an exclamation mark it return underneath the title. We're going to write a link. CSS style matches the same name. I'm gonna drag this over here. We're ready to go except we haven't changed the title. I know we need to let's do this real quick. Alright. Here's my title. Everything's ready to roll except few word wrap. That looks nice. Alright. First ...

thing is we need to add something to style so in your body tag here I'm going to add just a plain old H1. Okay And inside that HR and just add a bit of text. Okay and over here we're gonna style it. Okay. So we're going to style our H1 and we're going to say you are a really simple color of find. Crazy color lime green works semi colon. So we've done this loads. Let's test in the browser so what ends up happening normally is this doesn't appear if you start a new project, you can just get that going again by right clicking anywhere in your html and go open live server does the same thing except where is blind where he's going there. He is there. Cool. So I've got a big chunk of H1 that is lime green. What I'd like to do now is set up a trigger that says if the browser is about this big change the color. Okay to do that. You add something called a media query. Okay, so media query at least goes into your CSS and it looks like this. It says that sort of Medicare. E Now the weird thing about V. S. Code is normally it's really helpful with suggesting lots of code. Like I rely on it so much now and it doesn't for media queries, it's just something that's not in their future list at the moment. Hopefully by the time you get here um, it's been updated and it does have lots of helpful stuff because the syntax is a bit weird. It's not something like we've done before. So this thing triggers it the at media and then it's looking for a max width. Okay, so what we're going to use a colon and then a size so it's looking for a max width of we're gonna use 768 pixels. It's just a really common tablet size. Okay tablet in portrait. Cool. And then put in curly braces and put a return in. Okay, so that's it. It's going to say All right. I'm looking out. Okay I'm looking out and checking the browser size from zero up into a max width of this. Now we've picked 768 you can use any size you like okay, whatever you're targeting if you're watching this in 10 years there is probably no chance tablet is still the size. Probably not even tablets flying cars. Hopefully anyway, so what we're going to say is once this is triggered so basically this is all right when this is all being matched. Okay, it's from 0 to 768 trigger all the CSS in here and the CSS we're gonna write is an H one okay of color. Okay. We're going to pick a color dot green, dark orange, look at that. Alright, let's give it a test first. Let's check our browser there is there so he's green. Okay. But if he gets below 768, you ready? You ready? You ready? Hey Cool. Ha there's all the media query is okay and that's the real real kind of like structure that we're going to build the rest of our responsive website on. We're going to turn things on and off shovel the sizes around, turn navigations on and off all based on these media queries if yours is working be very proud of yourself. Remember when I first worked this out, I was like holy smoke, look at me, let's go and do a couple of things. One is let's add some commenting just so we kind of know what we're doing and get rid of all your returns and stuff. I was going to use a bad word, let's not use bad words, Family show. Alright, so above this media query. Okay, I'm going to add some comments. So remember it's command forward slash on a pc. On a Mac, sorry control forward slash on a pc gives you the commenting and this is going to be my tablet view tablet view. Now. One thing you don't or make sure you have if you're like it's still not working, why isn't it working? You gotta make sure the syntax is alright. Sometimes my students have little type with instead of with okay, it needs to have a colon there, the size, you need double brackets as well. Can you see curly braces there, the end there. This little H1 has his own little curly braces, you might just do this. Okay. All my returns might be just were you out kind of looks a little bit nicer like that. It still works. Cool. So we're going to do that. We'll do the mobile view. Next mobile so if that's mobile and that's tablet, what does that make this? This is considered the Global view. What shortcut that I hit. I think that one anyway this is called the Global view. Okay. And our case. Okay. A K a The desktop view. We'll talk about mobile first versus desktop first in a little while. But everything in here is like the generic stuff. Okay. Unless it happens to be this or smaller. Okay. or smaller do this same thing for a mobile. Let's cheat and be let's call it efficient. Nous Okay. And I'm going to say this but instead of using I'm going to get all my tabs nicely. Okay. Instead of saving 768, we're going to use a really common mobile in portrait size. Okay. 400 is what I use a lot of people use 363 63 23 80. Okay. It's hard because mobile phones are all very different sizes so And I use 400 in this video though. We can't use 400 because of this problem. I can't actually drag my browser Shorter. You know, skinny enough to be 400 pixels. Just won't let me anymore. Used to used to go right in here. But the new chrome won't yours might you might be fine. But for the moment we have to just kind of go, all right, we're just going to fake it would be 500 so that we can test here locally And and the other thing is that if well I'll show you in a video coming up in a sec. How to test on on mobile devices. But for the moment just make it 500, pick a new color. Okay. Something contrasting everything else. What have we got? Let's put in black. There you go. That's very contrasting. So are you ready? Ready to do our responsive awesomeness. It's already too small. I pretend you didn't see that. Alright, so green, green, green, green, orange and black. Okay, so this is a really simple kind of setup of it. We're going to turn div tags on and off. We're going to play with the size but I hope you're proud of your cool little set up. Really simple. Okay. Not terribly complicated on this side and we're doing three media queries. It's up to you when I'm lazy and I'm just making a site real quickly. I'll just do these two. I'll say I don't care about tablet. Okay. I'll just do Global and mobile. Okay. That's bad though. It's bad practice then. Okay, good practice. If you're working at a really big like say a larger company as a developer or designer and you might be expected to do five or seven different sizes. Okay. For different kind of getting the most out of every single view. But if you're making a quick website for a friend who paying you in high fives. Okay. He's just getting a mobile and a Global and I'm not doing any else. Alright, one last thing before I go is this will really need this. Okay, so this thing that says meta name vieux port. This comes in for us by default when we're using that fancy exclamation mark and then return Okay. There's other ways of doing Emmett shortcuts. You can do html five and hit tab. Does that work in this html colon five? That will do the same thing. Okay. And it gets the view ports, it's slightly different. Not that I can see what, but sometimes this viewpoint doesn't get put in by default where you might be doing in somebody else's tutorial. I'm undoing. So it all comes back here. We are. Okay, just make sure this is in there. Okay. We need to just tell the browser what the initial view is so that all this responsiveness will work. Alright, that's it. I want to explain it just one more time. So the CSS flow goes alright, Everybody is an H one. Okay, actually let's do one last little bit just to really drive it home. So let's say I say that each one is going to have a font of font family, font family of let's say Korea. Oh geez, korean you Gabe. So what ends up happening is it gets alright, starts here goes H one, you're a color of lime green, you're a font of courier gets to here and says hey, so let's say we move the browser down to about five that was pulling it up from here. I'll leave this in the class because you're like, hey doesn't say html five, turn it off, turn around again. Hey networks. Okay. So we're saying all right be green and courier unless the browser's changed. And what happens is it gets to him and says, Alright, the browser is less than 768. So it says Alright, I contradict you. So I'm going to override you because I am more specific and I'm further down the CSS. Okay. But it gets to H1 and it says Alright from family. I am not like there's nothing contradictory it here so it flows through it. Okay. So there's not being touched because there's nothing else in here that says font family. Okay. It gets down to here and says, hey what? You know, should I be a different font here and says no, I'm not going to tell you anything. So if it goes at the top it will flow all the way through. If I have the font family down here. Okay, It'll do something very different. You need to put my bracket down, squeeze them in there. Okay. So having it down here is very different. It's going to start okay. And this is only going to get triggered when it's at that size. Let's have a little look here. Okay. It gets to here and it hasn't been activated yet. Okay because that trigger that media query hasn't been activated. Same with yet. But down here you see you can do some really big changes. So if you want it to be global on everything, unless told otherwise, do it at this top chunk here and it doesn't need a media query. Okay. I just added that there to make it a little easier explained. All right. How we doing media queries. I'm happy. You're happy If your syntax isn't working, have a check of the completed files, they'll be in the exercise files and just check for the name of this video will be a corresponding bit of code in there that looks exactly like this. All right, on to the next video.

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