Mick Redman: smartphones

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Smartphone and upwards

This layout works on the basis that smartphones have a minimum width of 480px or 30em. And so, this layout will happily work on anything greater than that. The result, no need to check which device is accessing it.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Smartphone and upwards</title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
}
body
{
background:#C23F67;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#mainContent, hgroup, footer p, nav p
{
margin:0 auto;
width:30em;
}
hgroup, nav, footer
{
font-family:Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
h1,h2
{
font-weight:lighter;
}
h1
{
font-size:4em;
margin-top:0.5em;
}
h2
{
font-size:3em;
}
nav
{
   text-transform:lowercase;
   text-align:right;
border-bottom:0.1em solid #FFFFFF;
   position:fixed;
   right:0;
   top:0;
   width: 100%;
   _position: absolute;
   height:2em;
background:#000000;
}
nav a
{
   margin-left:0.25em;
   margin-right:0.25em;
   text-decoration:none;
}
#mainContent
{
   height:auto;
   padding-bottom:2em;
   clear:both;
}
#mainContent p
{
width:18.5em;
float:left;
font-family: 'Droid Serif', arial, serif;
font-size:0.95em;
line-spacing:0.5em;
padding:0.5em;
text-align:justify;
}
img
{
margin-top:0.5em;
width:11em;
min-height:11em;
border-top:0.1em solid #FFFFFF;
}
footer
{
   border-top:0.1em solid #FFFFFF;
   position:fixed;
   right:0;
   bottom:0;
   width: 100%;
   _position: absolute;
   height:2em;
background:#000000;
}
nav p, footer p
{
margin-top:0.25em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section id="container">
<nav>
<p>
<a>Home</a>
<a>Help</a>
<a>About</a>
</p>
</nav>
   <hgroup>
<h1 >header</h1>
   <h2>sub-header</h2>
</hgroup>
<section id="mainContent">
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<img />
</section>
</section>
<footer><p>Contact information</p></footer>
</body>
</html>