The simplest techniques of adaptive layout

Every month there are more and more websites with adaptive markup, customers other than cross-browser compatibility are increasingly demanding, but many developers are in no hurry to learn new techniques. But responsive design is easy! This article presents 5 examples of adaptive markup of various elements of web pages.

1. Video ( demo )

Very simple CSS and HTML, and your embed video will scale to fit the page width:
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<div class="video"> <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/6929537"frameborder="0"></iframe> </div> 

 .video { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .video iframe, .video object, .video embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } 

2. Maximum and minimum width ( demo )

Max-width helps determine the maximum possible width of an object. In the example below, the width of the div is 800 pixels if possible, but not more than 90% of the width:

 .container { width: 800px; max-width: 90%; } 

You can also scale the image:

 img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } 

This design will work in IE 7 and IE 9, and for IE 8 we do the following hack:

 @media \0screen { img { width: auto; /* for ie 8 */ } } 

Min-width - the opposite of max-width, allows you to set the minimum width of the object. In the example below, thanks to the min-width, the text field is scaled:

3. Relative values ​​( demo )

If in adaptive layout use relative values ​​in the right places, you can significantly reduce the CSS code of the page. Below are examples.

Relative margin

An example of the layout of nested comments, where relative values ​​are used instead of absolute values. As you can see from the screenshot, the second method is much more readable:

Relative font size

When using relative values ​​(em or%) of a font, the relative values ​​of line space and indents are also inherited:

Relative padding

In the screenshot below you can clearly see the advantages of relative values ​​of padding over absolute ones:

4. The trick with overflow: hidden ( demo )

You can clear the float from the previous element and leave the content inside the container using overflow: hidden, which is very useful in adaptive markup. Clearly - in the demo .

5. Word wrap ( demo )

With CSS, you can transfer intolerable text constructs:

 .break-word { word-wrap: break-word; }