@ShivangamSoni
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What are some best practices when using @media for different displays?
- When it comes to best practices, most people like to go for
Mobile-First
Approach. Where the initial CSS Styling is done for Mobile UI & then you usemedia-query
to change the UI for Larger Screens. - Secondly, the way in which you should use
media-query
is that once at lest one UI Styling is done (Desktop or Mobile). You use Browser Dev tool to adjust the screen size, & observe the Size at which the UI starts to break (Overflow, Font looks too large, etc.). - Right now if we look at your solution, you are changing the Styles at 1440px, even though around
740-800px
there is enough screen left around that you can adjust the size & make the Card a bit larger.
For text size is it more common to use px values or use relative units such as em/rem?
- It's more common & best practice to use
em
&rem
. - Using Relative units, we get the advantage that we can adjust the font in one shot using
media-query & root
instead of setting it for every element separately
@media screen and (min-width: 1040px)
{
html {
fontsize: 0.75rem;
}
}
- You'll notice that even for readjusting the Font, I've used
rem
the reason is that it provides advantage in terms of User Experience. If some user sets a different default font-size using their browser setting usingrem
we will be basically respecting that & building on top of it. whereas if you were to setpx
values, the user's preferences are of no use.
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